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Posted by Phillip Kyle on 10/25/05 21:01
ah <splifingate@gmail.com> verbally sodomised in
news:pmq7f.15209$Io4.5862@trnddc06:
> Peter Parsnip wrote:
>> Be still! and revere Ted Capuano, who blessed us with their presence on
>> 25 Oct 2005...
>>
>>> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:23:52 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Dewsbery"
>>> <richard@dewsbery.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Yes, it's that special time again. So please do not feed the trolls.
>>>>Particularly the cross-posting variety.
>>>
>>> Are you the Richard Dewsbery who wrote this to the now exposed private
>>> mailing list "ng_abuse"?
>>
>> He certainly is, and as I have pointed out, it is disgusting that he is
>> prepared to abuse the system in this way. All mouth and no trousers.
>>
>>> <Quote>
>>>
>>> ISPs have to tread warily where posters using their services are
>>> libelling other people. Although I am not a media lawyer, I would
>>> cite as authority for the proposition that an ISP can be liable for
>>> acts of its subscribers the case of Godfrey vs Demon Internet.
>>> Although the case was ultimately settled out of court by Demon, a
>>> first instance ruling had held that they could be liable for
>>> carrying posts authored by a third party if they didn't remove the
>>> posts when asked from the servers.
>>>
>>> The effect of this is to make all ISPs think carefully about whether
>>> they want bloody nuisances as customers, as each time the nuisance
>>> posts something insulting the victim can complain, and if the
>>> message isn't deleted at source, the ISP gets to pay damages. After
>>> a few complaints from different individuals, the ISP is well advised
>>> to pull the account rather than risk missing a few deletions and
>>> getting whacked by a High Court defamation suit.
>>>
>>> I gather that some of the current crop of most virulent trolls may
>>> be real people, with an academic access to the net. Either the
>>> academic establishment is acting as its own ISP, or it has an
>>> outside ISP - it matters not, a few cease and desist letters and
>>> either ought to pull the offenders' net priveleges. Regardless of
>>> what certain news server admins may think about it (letters
>>> involving lawyers in suits usually end up on more important desks).
>>>
>>> What we need is concrete evidence of how the messages are being
>>> posted, and by whom and to what servers; some innocent victims who
>>> have been the subject of defamatory postings; and some sharply-
>>> worded letters before action to the ISP or establishment through
>>> which the abuse has been posted. Sledgehammer to crack a nut, but
>>> it seems that the only other solutions require us to put up with the
>>> little gits. I'll happily help out with any letters before action -
>>> with the provisos that I'm not an expert on defamation, nor will I
>>> be involved in any litigation either as claimant or representative.
>>>
>>> </Quote>
>>
>> Utterly pathetic. Wimp.
>
> Writs will fly?
Not by George.
--
Phil Kyle
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