On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:28:59 +0100, in uk.d-i-y ":::Jerry::::"
wrote:

"John Cartmell" wrote in message
...

Dear me. So you haven't met a lawyer? ;-)

"M'lud, my client had full expectation of being able to publish a
collection
of his thoughts until XYZ Ltd made them available to a much wider
public than
those few souls who read the specialist news group uk.d-i-y.
Through their
turpitude he now has no means of obtaining the pension to see him
through the
remaining winters of his later years."

pass the hanky ;-)


But *every* NNTP server is doing the self same thing, with the
knowledge of the contributor! No doubt that a silkily spoken lawyer
could convince a punter that they could make a case, heck that
happens in just about each and every court case, but that doesn't
mean they will win and that costs could well be awarded against the
complainant...

Think about the analogy between telephone exchanges and nntp servers.

Phil