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This is a little off-topic, but you really should get yourself a new ISP. Suspend first, notify later is a really crappy policy.
Unfortunately, it is pretty standard in .uk - there is a precident that even leaving *news items* on your news spooler that someone has sent a legal notification in on (for libel in this case) that weren't even posted from your isp is grounds for the complainant to sue the *ISP* for bignums (presumably on the basis that many offenders are either untracable or judgement-proof).
There was a reasonably recent case where an online newsletter website was shut down - and in order to get it back the content providers were told they needed a signed statement from their lawyer that no postings libelous to the complainant would ever be posted (note, there *had* been no such postings to date, the complainant sent in a nasty-gram on the basis they *might* write something he didn't like in the future.
Add this to the RIP bill and BT's heel-dragging over Flatrate, and you don't have to wonder why England isn't going to be the "ideal home for ecommerce" the government used as an election platfor
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by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 02, 2000 at 15:51 UTC
    Ah yes, Laurence Godfrey vs Demon. Here is the story. And a legal analysis.

    Anyone who wants can go back to an old (circa 1993) FAQ to get a sense of what he was like. (Search for his name.)