[Milsurplus] Archive to Donate

[J. Forster]

The Defendant has a remedy. Look for a lawyer to counterclaim against the
Plaintiff for Abuse of Process and seek legal fees and punitive damages,
and go for Summary Judgement because the Plaintiff lacks proof of ever
having bought anything with tubes in it from the Defendant.

Judge Judy would throw it out in a heartbeat.

-John

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> In regards to "Who, other than a historian would want it?" maybe I was
> speaking in more general terms. Not just archives and written evidence but
> also components, sub assemblies or complete systems. In today's world you
> can be sued for someone's use of an item you produced regardless of if you
> sold or gave it to them. Consider this nut, who is suing tube manufactures
> and resellers, look at web address:
>
> http://www.cascadesurplus.com/lawsuit/
>
> What you and I may consider abuse of the legal process other wackjobs may
> consider excursing a legal right. Supposed you release your research
> archives and this nut job reads that your company burnt off a non used
> byproduct in a sounding rocket flight the year he was born, and that's why
> now he has headaches.  That sounds almost as passable as his mercury from
> tubes story.
> RF
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Forster [mailto:jfor at quikus.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 12:51 PM
> To: Ray Fantini
> Cc: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Archive to Donate
>
>> When I was involved with AMSAT we had lots of people and companies
>> that wanted to donate archives. Problem was storage space was always an
>> issue.
>> Paper archives can build up fast, quite often we are talking about
>> hundreds of items so it's not just a box of records but hundreds of
>> pounds of papers. Warehouse space is expensive, rent and utilities
>> along with someone to stack, catalog and move the stuff.
>
> A fair point, but there are records and meaningful records.
>
> In buying surplus, I've been through warehouses that had hundreds of feet
> of shelving of boxes of paper. Most of that is meaningless...  trhings
> like QA reports on modules, test records, purchase orders, and the other
> day-to-day paper of producing product. The meaningful engineering stuff,
> which should be preserved, is a tiny subset of that.
>
>> Whenever you get a donated
>> storage space that has a habit of going away at some point then you're
>> moving all that stuff again. We had a time just allocating space for
>> donated flight ready hardware, tools and test equipment, stewardship
>> of others archives had to be a lower priority. Then in the case of
>> corporate material many companies cannot consider giving the material
>> to an individual because then they have no control over it. What if
>> that person goes thru that material and finds information that's
>> detrimental to the company and publishes it?
>
> Records are usually held by the originator company until the Statute of
> Limitations has long expired.
>
>> What if they turn around and sell it?
>
> Who, other than a historian would want it? Is anybody really going to
> build new ARC-5s today?
>
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