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To: SI Bob who wrote (452091)	9/3/2003 2:58:08 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

The reason is that someone could include a boilerplate request for confidentiality at the end of an abusive, threatening tirade. Good point. I hadn't thought of that possibility.

To: SI Bob who wrote (452091)	9/4/2003 7:26:50 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Australian judge rules against LA man in Web defamation case The Associated Press Last Updated 8:25 a.m. PDT Thursday, September 4, 2003 LOS ANGELES (AP) - An Australian judge has ordered a Los Angeles man to pay $61,000 for defaming an Australian journalism professor on several Web sites. The judge ruled against Bill White this week after finding White's allegations that Trevor Cullen was an academic fraud and child molester were untrue. Master David Wallace Newnes ruled in favor of Cullen, a professor at Edith Cowan University, at the Supreme Court of Western Australia in Perth. "The conduct of the defendant can be attributed only to a conscious desire on his part to cause the plaintiff the maximum amount of damage, hurt and embarrassment by what amounts to a campaign of deliberately offensive vilification," said Newnes. White said in an e-mail he did not know of the judgment but said it would be "not enforceable in the United States. It is void." White, 60, created numerous similar sites about people around the world who he says refused to help him uncover an alleged sex scandal at a small Catholic university in Papua New Guinea in 1996. Information from: Los Angeles Times sacbee.com