On Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 07:45 am, Madhu Menon wrote: > http://designforcommunity.com/conversations/messages.pl/showThread?id=53 > > <quote> > > A California court has ruled that comments made on message boards are > opinion and not seen as slander or libel under the law > > </quote> ...in California. However, the Godfrey -v- Demon case shows otherwise in UK law. It also shows that the *host* is liable once their attention has been drawn to those comments. Cheers Martin _______________________________________________ email: martin at easyweb.co.uk PGP ID: 0xA835CCCB martin at members.evolt.org snailmail: 30 Shandon Place tel: +44 (0)774 063 9985 Edinburgh, url: http://www.easyweb.co.uk Scotland