[TheForge] lawyers and hold harmless ( was Re: anyone know of a disabled person wanting to take up blacksmithing?

[Shawn Bennett]

Mr. Ridder,

If it is possible, I'd like to be able to send you a more private e-mail,
that wouldn't be viewed by the entire Blacksmithing List, or to speak with
you personally.  More to "plead my case" than anything else if you are still
interested in your offer.  I would normally have no problem posting it in
the List, but I've been extreemly frank in my letter and I don't feel it's
appropriate on such a mass scale.

I tried to send it to terrylr at blauedonau.com but the server tells me:  "the
message was...rejected by the recipient domain" and "E-mail from
gmail.comis REJECTED on account of spam and network abuse. Now bugger
off!  (state
13)."

I thought that was funny.

Shawn Bennett

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:45 PM, terry l. ridder <terrylr at blauedonau.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm good and crazy, so you can send it all here.
> >
> > As for your lawyers, WTF?  What in god's green acre could they be all
> > nervous nellie about helping some poor bastard with some tooling?
> >
>
> they site countless frivolous lawsuits filed against donors of a vast
> list of items that the party receiving the donation was either
> alledgedly injured by or in someway harmed. many donors settle to avoid
> long drawn out legal fees. other donors battle it out and eventually win
> in the courts but lose financially because of the legal costs of
> defending themself in the courts.
>
> since many of the items i made myself or repaired myself, they are
> concerned about "product liability".
>
> the lawyers consider "hold warmless agreements" a complete and total
> waste of paper and time.
>
> they do not want to see me end up in more legal nightmares.
>
> >
> > If nothing else, you can always have the recipient sign a release/waiver.
> >
> > Jesus tapdancing christ... what a world.
> >
> > BTW, I was being somewhat facetious in asking my question.
> >
> >
>
> --
> terry l. ridder ><>
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