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To my knowledge no one has ever successfully sued Faunaclassifieds/BOI. If I were to consider adding such a category to my website I would contact him and bend his ear a bit before going ahead with it. I don't know of any other site that has taken this idea to the extent that Rich has and I know that there are many people who are very grateful to him for doing it. Of course, there are probably as many people mad at him for doing so as well. Is it the sort of thing for every site. Of course not. It would take a person with thick skin and a lot of nerve to pull it off. I would think that a key factor in the legality of such a site would lie in the truthfulness of the posts. I know that in the beginning Rich, and a select group of regulars, held any one making posts to pretty high standards. No anonymous posts for one thing, and if you didn't have your facts straight you wound up looking worse than the scammer. Of course, as with anything, there gets to be a bit of bickering. Cliques form and a good old boy network sort of develops. I find the BOI less useful than it originally was but that is mainly because some people can not refrain from commenting on every single thread no matter if they have anything to contribute or not and it makes for some long drawn out threads.

I do not know the legalities involved with something like this. I wonder if the truth can ever be considered slanderous however.

For the record, regarding my comments in the thread about Bob. Cazador said nothing negative about him in his email to me. He just informed me that he was having some trouble with some of the snakes he bought from him and I decided not to take the chance.

Steve