🚀 go-pugleaf

"Laurence Godfrey" <laurence@godfreynet.net> wrote in message
news:3c9a462c.25138327@news.virgin.net...
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:01:53 -0500, "Ray Gordon" <caveman21@nni.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> >Please answer why you can't just file a John-Doe claim.
> >>
> >> They do not exist in England, and I sue in defamation in the English
> >> High Court.
> >
> >So if no one gives you their name online you cannot sue them?
> >
> >Or do you sue the ISP and have them give it to you?
>
> That's almost right. You get a court order compelling disclosure, as
> you also (sometimes) do in the USA.
>
> >> >Why not just get it from the ISP via a subpoena?  You're the one who
> >claims
> >> >to be trained in law.
> >>
> >> I could. I may still do so. But you miss the point. Someone who
> >> invites me to sue him and then fails to provide the necessary
> >> information is the child who taunts: "I dare you to hit me" and
> >> immediately runs away.
> >
> >I don't know there.  Didn't you say you were going to sue if you didn't
get
> >your apology?
> >
> >It would seem that you laid down the gauntlet there, not him, when you
> >protested over his postings.  Isn't your standard warning to apologize
and
> >cover your legal costs or you're going to sue?
>
> You are confused. The person who refused to supply his name and
> address in this tiresome thread is not the person responsible for the
> original postings.
>
> >I didn't see an apology.  The next step after that was a claim from you
that
> >you needed the address to sue, and I pointed out that in America this is
not
> >the case, and further, even if you *thought* you had the right name,
you'd
> >STILL have to verify it through the ISP, so you would probably do that
> >anyway.
> >
> >That's how most American libel cases are fought.
>
> Why should I care how American libel cases are fought?
>
> Laurence

Laurence, why do you do this?  I'm not trying to wind you up nor am I a
silly kid (too many years on the planet for that), but I do not undertand
why you join in with 'kids' and others trying to wind you up.  With your
reputation as a result of the Demon case (on which I have no opinion either
way, I can see both sides of the argument), you are obviously a target, but
why don't you just ignore it?
>