Steve Foley wrote:

I'm not a lawyer, nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn last night, but I believe
that you must prove you've been injured/damaged/whatever by the libel in
order to collect.

It may be possible to have one's ISP cut off service to TOS violations in
such a case though.

I once said in a aviation mailing list that it was disreputable at best
to sell plans for a plane that had never flown. The person the comment
was directed at threatened me with a libel suit. My reply was F'off and
die. Funny thing, I never heard from his layer and I still think this
person is a scoundrel. You can speak your mind in public all you want
and unless malice is proven, it's going to be hard to shut anyone up...

Tony