MOULIN BLUES!!!!!!

Hi Craig

Points well worth raising!

crgwllms wrote:
> And I
> notice that, having followed that more cautious path, you
> both then came to agreement about what the problem was and he
> was very prompt in solving it.

Actually there was no agreement involved. You'll notice that I don't presume to make any judgement about whether or not I believe the requested material is libellous. That would be up to the courts to decide. I act as soon as I'm requested to remove something that someone informs me they regard as libellous.

In fact, I share all of the doubts raised in your post. I tend to think that any reasonable person would take into account the context of posts on a public message board, particularly anonymous ones, and that this might well mitigate against any attempt to engender contempt or ridicule and the amount of damage done to a person's reputation. You'd have to be pretty gullible to TACKY's word for what appeared in her/her post! I also believe that any reasonable person in the least concerned about the reliability or veracity of the views espoused would read TACKY's post in the context of the other discussion on the website. All of which may not do a great deal to assist TACKY in defending a libel case, but could limit the culpability of those offering the message board facility.

But this is all entirely hypothetical and I for one can't afford to test it in court.

Dang!

;-)

Cheers
Grant

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