When a constituant complains, or enough get to gether to complain, or something drastic happens, lawmakers have a knee-jerk reaction to give a big visual SHOW that they're doing something, and try to pass laws that may not be well thought out. Acadia - by reading your post that is 3 up from this one, I'm reading that this is VERY personal to you so you would love to see any measure of it to pass to get back at (or have recourse for) your attackers. And that's what they were - attackers! Your responses have since been to use word choices to enforce your argument, and dismiss anyone that might damage said argument. The others have the same general consensus of legal internet culpability, and they're right. There is no internet police that can monitor everything all the time, and catch the assholes who make life miserable. The woman who posted the sexual photographs of her husband/boyfriend's lover - there's a traceable offender who can be prosecuted. The site that blindly "hosts" the forums where she posted them - they didn't kow until someone who didn't approve informed them. Someone above remarked that it's like trying to sue the phone company for harassing calls - that's a very good likeness. The only thing the phone company should be responsible for (and think metaphorically for the internet forums) is cancelling someone's contract and refusing service, ONCE THEY'VE BEEN INFORMED. Until then they have no idea, and cannot be held legally responsible. Websites organized for illegal or immoral activities - that's a simple argument and has no bearing on this discussion. Websites like RR - purely as an art community with all good intentions - if someone is prowling the forums looking to slander others, that's where it gets murky. All RR can do is ban them - ad then they can create a completely different account with bogus personal info and a new username - and here we go again... The person directly committing slander is responsible - not the Host. If the Host won't work with you after informing them, THEN reach for other methods. And I am NOT gonna give my credit card info to have on the Host's storage for contact info proof, only to have a hacker invade the Host and get all my personal info. BAD idea. -Lew