Caveat emptor.

The author of this reply owns the domain for Vasclip.com, and
presumably has some stake in the company. Here is a message that I
sent to Chris at the end of June requesting that he identify himself
as someone with a financial stake in the Vasclip when making postings
to this site:

"Greetings Chris,

I received this message from a man, Kurt, who found your posting (from
quite a while ago now) at the MaleContraceptives.org discussion
group. Kurt explains how he discovered that you are the owner of the
Vasclip.com domain, and was upset by the fact that you didn't reveal
this in your posting. I can't help but wonder if Kurt was researching
Vasclip as a vasectomy alternative, and decided not to be your
customer partially because of these questionable business ethics. As
Kurt says in the message below, we try to keep the
MaleContraceptives.org website and discussion group strictly
informational. This means that we disclose all of our sources, often
with full citation lists. Your company may benefit from a similar
policy... If you're proud of your product, why not promote it openly?

Regards,
Kirsten Thompson
MaleContraceptives.org

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Comment about your Newsgroup
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:10:50 -0400
From: "Kurt"
To: <info@...>

Hello. While looking for information on a device called
the "vasclip," I found a message on your yahoo groups message board
from a person named "Chris Herman." Out of curiosity, I did
a "whois" search (at www.networksolutions.com) to see who owns the
website www.vasclip.com. That site is registered to a Chris Herman
(below your group message, I'll include the whois report). Herman
presents himself in your group as someone who's just stumbled across
your site and thought to mention a related site; in fact, he's
advertising his own website--and probably his own product--through a
sham technique that fails to disclose that he's promoting HIS OWN
PRODUCT. While the vasclip website doesn't name the managers, it is
registered as a private company in Roseville, MN, at the same address
as the one where the domain name is registered to Chris Herman.

I thought you'd like to know about this. Your website seems to be an
information-first, non-commercial site, and I'd like to help you keep
it that way...

Kurt


The "whois" report from networksolutions:

vasclip.com

Registrant:
VMBC, LLC (VASCLIP-DOM)
3030 Centre Pointe Drive, Suite 900
Roseville, MN 55113
US

Domain Name: VASCLIP.COM

Administrative Contact:
Herman, Chris (OHLLPATLII) cherman@...
3030 Centre Pointe Road, Ste. 900
Roseville, MN 55113
US
651-631-1830 fax: 123 123 1234
Technical Contact:
VISI.com (DH-ORG) hostmaster@...
VISI.com
12 S 6th St Suite M115
Minneapolis, MN 55402
US
612-288-0880 fax: - 612-288-0889

Record expires on 01-Mar-2007.
Record created on 11-Oct-2002.
Database last updated on 24-Jun-2003 22:58:53 EDT.

Domain servers in listed order:

NS.VISI.COM 209.98.98.1
NS2.VISI.COM 38.144.126.68"