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By David Canton

Seems that an Australian court ordered a default judgement to be served on two defendants by sending a message to their Facebook pages.  See this article in the Australian Morning Herald.

Cory Doctorow of Boing boing comments on how this is a bad idea, saying how “It’s like serving notice on me by sticking a post-it on a toilet wall on which someone has written “Cory wuz heer” and declaring it legal.”

I wouldn’t go that far - this is hardly going to become a standard method of service. 

Kudos to the court in my view - this would be more effective than the usual last resort of publishing a notice in a local newspaper.

Full post as published by eLegal Canton on December 16, 2008 (boomark / email).