| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 29 Oct 2000 at 20:13:57 |
| Subject: | Re: Talk is cheap |
Andy Hall said,
> Secondly if Mr Connolly's remarks about Pinprint publishing can be proved to
> have no substance, then Pinprint Publishing _*may*_ be able to take his ISP
> to court if they have been notified about his behaviour before and have not
> taken any action. There was a case recently where (I beleive it was
> Compuserve or Demon) were successfully sued over defamortory messages thier
> users had posted on a public forum about a Doctor.
They weren't sued for the user making the posting. They were sued for
failing to remove it after it had been brought to their attention. It
was a newsgroup posting that was allegedly libellous. Demon were
formally requested to remove it and didn't do so.
It may be possible to bring an action against eGroups for retaining
libellous messages in the database after their removal has been
requested. By the same token, the list owner may be responsible for
defamatory material that wasn't removed.
Neil
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