Forwarded story to The Guardian - thought they might bite.
"MatSav" wrote in message
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"John Rowland" wrote in message
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After more than six years of supporting Tramlink, Stephen Parascandolo
has
been forced by legal threats to remove the Latest News section from the
Unofficial Croydon Tramlink website.

http://www.tramlink.co.uk/news/index.shtml


The site is, of course, available on Google Cache:


http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:E...ink+news&hl=en

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MatSav

Marc Brett wrote:

decisions on future tram orders.

Future tram orders? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Cheers

mark-r

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David Hansen wrote:


Personally I would put any threatening e-mails, letters and
transcripts of telephone calls on the web site. Bullies don't like
daylight being shone on their activities.


Unfortunately, the Golden Rule has applied in this case - "He who hath the
gold maketh the rules".

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:25:47 +1300, Peter wrote:

David Hansen wrote:


Personally I would put any threatening e-mails, letters and
transcripts of telephone calls on the web site. Bullies don't like
daylight being shone on their activities.


Unfortunately, the Golden Rule has applied in this case - "He who hath the
gold maketh the rules".

Which obviously trumps "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one."

Which obviously trumps "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one."

Which is, however, a very true statement.

David Hansen wrote:
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:57:03 GMT someone who may be
(Nick Cooper) wrote
this:-

As it is no big secret, the parties that **threatened** to take legal action
we -

Tramtrack Croydon Ltd over "inaccurate" speculation regarding the cause of
several recent incidents.

Bombardier Transportation over "libellous rubbish" that was published on my
site, [snp]

IANAL, but.... In the midst of everything, these two paragraphs speak
volumes. [snip] essentially it sounds like Tramlink and
Bombardier are saying, "You have libeled us on your site, but we're
not going to tell you where, when and how, so you'll have to take the
whole thing down."

Personally I would put any threatening e-mails, letters and
transcripts of telephone calls on the web site. Bullies don't like
daylight being shone on their activities.


It's a standard bluff all right, and totally unreasonable, ie refusing
to be specific, because of course the libel isn't really the issue.
They just want to stop anyone saying anything at all about them.

Unfortunately, they will probably have written to the ISP at the same
time, and some ISPs just cave in instantly with no consideration of the
validity of the complaint. So the site might have to be moved.

Shouldn't give in to this kind of bullying though.