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by Mike Caswell

Curis Resources Ltd. has narrowed its search for Stockhouse poster "erinG" to a person who used a computer at a government office in Pinal County, Arizona. In an application filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Tuesday, July 17, the company says that it has traced IP addresses for the user to both the government office and to Qwest Communications Company LLC, an Internet service provider. Curis is asking for a court order requesting assistance from U.S. authorities to obtain the user's real name.

Curis is trying to identify "erinG" after posts on Stockhouse questioned a water permit the company was attempting to obtain from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. According to the company, the posts wrongly stated that it had been unable to obtain the permit. Curis claimed that the messages were defamatory and that they led to a 27-per-cent drop in its price.

In Monday's application, the company says it has obtained two IP addresses from Stockhouse that "erinG" used. The first is registered to Qwest Communications, which provides residential Internet service under the name CenturyLink. The second is for a government office in Pinal County, Arizona, which is near the company's flagship Florence copper project. Curis's lawyer has written to both Qwest and to Pinal County requesting records relating to the IP addresses. Both replied that they would require a court order before they would provide any such records.

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