Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling

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From: Dave Roberts
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <slrn7hct0d.bh.Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk>, Sherilyn
<URL:mailto:Sherilyn@sidaway.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <ant1518101cbXL#k@pharpech.demon.co.uk>, Dave Roberts wrote:
> >In article <1895@thanatos.win-uk.net>, Paul Burridge
> ...
> >> Correct IMV. Decent people shouldn't be expected to lower
> >> themselves to the level of the troublemakers.
> >
> >Why would they be lowering themselves to the level of troublemaker? Hasn't
> >Godfreys action also labelled him a troublemaker in the eyes of some? What
> >makes one persons definition of troublemaker more relevent than anothers?
> 
> Alas, there is an answer to that: the law.

Exactly! I don't believe the law has much to say about issuing cancels for
forged postings.

-- 
Dave Roberts

Dave@pharpech.demon.co.uk

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From: Dave Roberts <Dave@pharpech.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Landmark English Internet Libel Ruling
Date: 1999/04/16
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