> From: murr rhame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Richard Masoner wrote:
>
> > > This is an interesting article which should concern list owners,
> > > particularly those who run their own servers.
> > >
> > > http://www.smh.com.au/daily/content/980314/national/national9.html
> >
> > The weasels settled :-(
They settled because the cost of defending themselves is probably
100x the cost of settling (more like 10K/week). And god help them
(and all of us) if they tried it and lost. That's our idea of
justice in this "enlightned" Age Of Litigation that we live in.
> >From my reading of the report, the weasels were wrong. The plaintiff
> hand sent several requests to have the false reports stopped. His
> only recourse was the libel suit.
The law says nothing about ``unless you were warned''. Mailing lists
either are or they are not responsible for carrying libelous statements.
IMHO A mailing list is *NOT* a magazine -- it is a print shop. We
print up copies of our customers document, stuff them in envelopes,
and mail them out.
Why didn't the good doctor just sue the person making the statement?
Why is that such a hard concept for people to grasp these days?
