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Adrian Midgley wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The law, like the Ritz, is open to everyone. > > Whether the case has any merit and the law provides any relief are other > matters, and tend to be quite case-specific. > > Website owners would like to have common carrier status, like th post > office, rather than be publishers. > I think there is a difference between website *owners* and *hosts*. I own my own website and am directly responsible for the content. The host is Easyspace, who would only be directly responsible if they failed to act with regard to a complaint. I don't think it is reasonable to expect hosts to pro-actively police the content of every site on their servers. What they *can* do is act to prevent any abuses reported to them carrying on. Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html