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

"John Cartmell" wrote in message
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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.


Oh, right, so telephone exchanges store the conversations that pass
through them and then pass those self same conversations onto any
telephone exchange that asks for a feed from them - I think not!