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 :-(
>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.
> U.S. White House advisor Sidney Blumenthal including AOL in his lawsuit
> against Matt Drudge should also be of interest to list owners and
> ISPs.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/other/politics/story/10886.html
All that these cases prove is that there is no special exemption from
libel exposure on the net. No big surprise and no change in the law.
The Drudge/AOL case is not far enough along to guess what will happen.
The report on the page listed above is very sketchy.
- murr -
