On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 July 2010 16:43, Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org wrote:
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On 07/21/2010 12:07 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Indeed. The address of the old office was kept quiet for security reasons, but the address of the new office has always been publicly available. To give him the benefit of the tiniest bit of doubt, he might have written it while the WMF was in the old office and just taken a long time to submit it to the court and not thought to check it was still true. There has been a phone number available for years, though.
Might I also offer that "kept quiet" does not negate "offered up to anyone who phoned up and asked for it." In reality, it was simply not publicized; but it was generally fairly easy to get.
Indeed, that's why I said "quiet" rather than "private" or "secret".
...And there was always a legal service address for DMCA takedown notices, through which agents can serve even if the organization itself is not available. And a published phone number.
However, from: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/w/index.php?title=Contact_...
...This guy filed the complaint at a time (Feb 28, 2010) after the last update to the WMF "Contact us" page was made (Nov 3, 2009), and the page contained the street address for the office.