[LINK] A legal request to add a disclaimer to an old link posting

[Ann Moffatt]

this has been an interesting debate. why not make the annotation requested
but link it to this discussion.

peace

annm
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ash Nallawalla" <nospam at crm911.com>
To: "'Antony Barry'" <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au>; <link at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 10:51 PM
Subject: RE: [LINK] A legal request to add a disclaimer to an old link
posting


> I don't agree with the history argument.  Did they leave the No War
> slogan on the Opera House?  It happened, after all.  Aren't certain
> comments expunged from Hansard and court records?
>
> It's all too easy to say that Tony should wait for a court order.  I've
> been through the hassle of a legal threat and Tony has better things to
> do than to waste time on this particular topic.  It isn't as though the
> contents could shake the foundations of this nation, so nobody is going
> to remember Tony for this decision.  Has anyone outside NSW even heard
> of this state government department, let alone care how their news
> server was loosely set up?  Frankly I was half expecting some of the
> anticensorship types here to compliment them for not restricting some
> newsgroups.
>
> I would take a practical approach particularly if we want to conserve
> the NSW taxpayer contributions.  They may well expend some money on
> lawyers since it isn't coming out of their own pockets.  This is exactly
> the kind of incident that could lead to someone in ANU deciding that
> these mailing lists are more trouble than they are worth.  Save the
> heroics for a better battle.
>
> - Ash
>
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