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Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 20:57:19 -0800
At 02:46 AM 12/3/98 -0900, Szechuan Death wrote:
Warnings: 1) IANAL. 2) This is quote, interspersed with rebuttal. 3) Although it involves no directly technical issues, it is an
operational issue
none the less. If you doubt it, ask yourself this question: would you
rather
spend your time fixing network problems, or monitoring content and
appearing in
court? 4) This post is somewhat lengthy.
[blathering stripped]
Tell me, what would you "choose" to do should one of your customers send
back,
stapled to their usage contract, a list of content they find objectionable
and
ask you to filter it? Suppose you can't, don't, or won't? How about if you screw it up and some gets through? Power comes with responsibility. Responsibility carries with it
liability. Are
you prepared to assume the liability that comes with "choosing" to
selectively
block content?
1) RBL is not content biased. Let me repeat that in case you are having trouble with the sentence structure.. The RBL is not content biased. 2) Were it to become content biased, MHSC would be among the first to quit using it. 3) The RBL is based on specific behaviour which is deemed unacceptable. This behaviour is called spamming. Note that it *still* does not suppress the spam. It only prevents spam from being delivered here.
Szechuan Death, AKA Theron Bair, sysadmin, net tech, student, etc. sdeath () ackphft matsu alaska edu
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Current thread:
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Szechuan Death (Dec 03)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Owen DeLong (Dec 03)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Henry Linneweh (Dec 03)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users John Leong (Dec 03)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Scott Lampert (Dec 03)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Roeland M.J. Meyer (Dec 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Dean Anderson (Dec 04)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Stephen Stuart (Dec 04)
- RE: Lawsuit threat against RBL users James D. Wilson (Dec 04)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Andrew Staples (Dec 07)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Steven J. Sobol (Dec 08)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Henry Linneweh (Dec 08)
- Re: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Steven J. Sobol (Dec 08)
- RE: Lawsuit threat against RBL users Dean Anderson (Dec 07)