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Old March 1st 05, 08:43 PM
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:17:11 +0100, in article

"Mxsmanic" wrote:

Ryadia writes:

The problem here Mxsmanic is the Peruvian IP address is in fact an open
relay proxy server concealing the identity of the real poster.


It's true that the originating IP address isn't always reliable.

This is precisely why Google needs to be made accountable for allowing this
sort of stuff to be posted to their servers and then publishing it to Usenet
without a care in the world for the personal damage it does to otherwise
innocent people.


It's not Google's problem. Besides, there are hundreds of other search
engines and hundreds of thousands of newsgroup servers.


Nevertheless, they ARE the publishers of the libel, and under the laws of
the country in which action is being brought, are liable once they have
been placed on notice of the defamation if they fail to remove it.

Moreover, by failing to reject posts made through well-known open
proxies, they are continuing to provide an easy path for libels to be
published through them.

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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu
le loisir de la faire plus courte."
Blaise Pascal, /Lettres Provinciales/, 1657