[Milsurplus] Archive to Donate

[Larry Snyder]

That was an interesting complaint.  At leaast 5 of the defendants
I have dealt with.  BTW, let me know if you ever find any Hg in a 6BQ5.

-ls-

"J. Forster" <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> ==============
> 
> 
> > 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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