Peter Machell wrote: > Sorry to prolong this shit but a few more points. A mailing list is > not a web site, nor is any content on it accessible in public. In > order to "expose" anything you'll need to join, and to join this > private list you except the condition that you won't use the content > externally. Very, very different to any case dealing with a web site > or other content available to the public. Would you sue someone who > said "Have you considered Genie?" in a private phone conversation? Peter
It is quite clear in Australian law that an email discussion list is a "public" publication. In fact the precedent involved the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners which was sued in the early 90s for about a half million dollars for defamatory comments made on one of its IT list. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
