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From: grady@promisecreepers.org (Grady Ward)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.censorship,misc.legal
Subject: FLASH: Tidepool rescinds decision to terminate grady@tidepool.com
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:15:08 GMT
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Donald Janke, CEO of Internet Ventures, Inc. parent of Tidepool.com of
Arcata, California has agreed to rescind the termination of Grady Ward's
account at Tidepool.com effectively immediately.

Mr. Janke said that he would post a position statement to relevant newsgroups
and hoped that a frank and open discussion would result.

I said that I appreciated his directive to restore my account and that I
welcomed a chance to clarify both the facts and our mutual positions
concerning this issue. I still deny violating the TOS/AUP in effect at the
time of the wrongful termination of my account at or before noon on October
16, 1997. Mr. Janke said that he would address with some specificity the
portion of the AUP that he felt that justified their original action.

During our frank conversation he said he was surprised to learn that he was
the first one from any one of his family of companies to contact me about
this issue via any means since the disabling of my account. He was also
surprised to learn that there may have been communication from his employees
to third parties that may have included  false statements about Grady Ward.
He said that mistakes had been made internally and that he was addressing
internal policies that needed to be clarified for the benefit of everyone.
He also said that I stepped over the line with respect to the boundary of
free speech. I respectfully disagreed with him and invited his analysis of
the TOS/AUP compared to the posting at issue.

We both are seeking a just, win-win result.

I am reposting to alt.binaries.scientology and alt.binaries.misc the .pdf
(Adobe Acrobat format) of the TOS/AUP that was in effect at the time of
my termination. I hope to hear some cogent analysis of why or why not
Tidepool could justify its decision to terminate my pre-paid account without
warning. It must be stressed that this posted TOS/AUP was the only agreement
about comportment on the Internet that I had agreed my service agreement with
Tidepool.



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