On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:08:45 +1100, Lionel wrote:

Kibo informs me that Mxsmanic stated that:

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.

Actually, it /is/ Googles problem, because the troll is posting from
Google itself, not from some random news service, & Google is preventing
victims of the troll's defamatory posts from taking legal action against
the troll.

If the trail ends at an ISp that doesn't control who uses it as an
open relay, then Google, if subpoenaed, would run into that same dead
end, wouldn't it?
So how is Google preventing victims from finding the perp?

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