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Re: Who can cancel it? (was Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling)

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From: Wolf
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <slrn7hhtha.9m.Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk>, Sherilyn
<Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <mAVuRwAJXNG3EwgK@reality8.demon.co.uk>, Wolf wrote:
>>In article <7fa8jk$58m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, Sherilyn wrote:
>...
>>>That was prophetic, as it turns out.  I just received an unexpected complaint
>>>email from Godfrey arising from one of my postings, in which he alleged that
>>>I had defamed him by quoting the Deja News URL of a posting made by an
>>>innocent third party.  I'm not willing to provide the pestilential nuisance
>>>with another _casus belli_, so I cooperated fully by issuing a cancel and a
>>>Deja News nuke request.
>>
>>Interesting.  I had assumed that Demon would be monitoring any
>>discussions on this matter just in case anyone hit on an answer that
>>they had not thought of, but I had also assumed that Godfrey would not
>>have the resources to cover all of the discussions that may be happening
>>round the net.  It seems that I was wrong, or that he has at least some
>>supporters who keep him informed of the way things are going.  
>
>There are not many discussions going on around this particular issue at
>present, and Deja News makes it a trivial matter for a single person to keep
>track of them all.  Demon Internet retains a full time legal staff that has
>nothing to do all day except further the interests of Demon Internet in law.

Finding discussions on a particular topic via Deja News is easy, but
reading them all is  a little more time consuming.  However, if there
aren't many at the moment, that explains it.  

-- 
Fenris Wolf

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From: Wolf <Fenris@reality8.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Who can cancel it? (was Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling)
Date: 1999/04/18
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