Re: de Silva: Apology requested

alvey wrote:

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>
> de Silva,
>
> That's complete rubbish.
> And you claim to work in a quasi-legal environment. Heaven help your
> clients.
>
> And you seem to be under the impression that I'm taking legal action
> against you for defamation, as usual, you'd be wrong. I requested an
> apology for your libel concerning your highly offensive & unsupported
> claims that I am a racist. I also promised to report your to your ISP if an
> unconditional apology for this libel was not forthcoming. Failure to to do
> 1 does not mean that I will be proceeding in a libel action against you. It
> is for your isp to decide whether you have, or are capable of, defaming
> people as a part of my complaint. I have no desire to feed lawyers and
> always intended to report you to Ozemail for your flagrant & repeated
> breaches of your TOS contract, specifically 4.2, Prohibited Uses, sect.
> (e)"to transmit, publish or communicate any material which is defamatory,
> offensive, abusive, menacing, threatening, harrassing or solicited".
>
>

So, Alvey,
what are the terms and conditions on your ISP?

Nothing about defamatory, offensive, abusive, menacing, threatening,
harrassing or solicited transmissions?

I reckon you would be up for most of them as well, apart from menacing.

Or is that one you're trying out now?

Higgs

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