(H)air spray (sorry, just helping with ideas for your new username ) my understanding is that it's because they're still 'in print', for want of a better term. If you deleted them (and no-one had copied and reposted them) it would be different. if they're still visible on the net, they can still be read and are therefore still allegedly defamatory. It doesn't matter when you wrote them.
Wrt your speeding analogy, you're not doing 60km in the present time, so the action doesn't exist. However, unless you delete it, your post does exist in the present time.
Thank you for your help but I really do NOT think I need any more usernames, I have more than enough already.
What I meant, maybe I did not explain it very well, was IF the Police still have a photo of me (my car) doing 60KPH in my street taken 10 years ago but the photo still exists to me this is the same as a post on PPRuNe from 10 years ago under different agreed terms and conditions.
