Re: DEMON FAIL TO GIVE NOTICE OF APPEAL

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From: Russ Allbery
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:00

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In news.admin.misc, Richard Ashton <{R}@sunshine.tm> writes:

> Demon made it MUCH worse for themselves by deeming a URL to be
> defamatory too, I do not belive it is, however if they do then they must
> act on all postings of that URL.

> This could quickly cause a compete shutdown of a news server, IMO, as
> the ISP could not reasonably cope against a kook attack.

I think you underestimate how easy it is to write a filter for that sort
of thing and how robust and fast such filters are.  I'm afraid that the
technology is already in place to be able to do this quite easily.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: DEMON FAIL TO GIVE NOTICE OF APPEAL
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