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Re: Legal Issues on Blackholeing (was AGIS signing up New Spamme
From: "Paul Flores" <pflores () ns1 wcg net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:11:12 +0000
If you decide to start filtering out SPAM by blocking it from the source, do you end up becoming a content provider because you're controlling what your customers have access to? If that is the case, what legal implications arise ...I was wondering if anyone was going to trip to this... Full credit, Mr. Shaw!
A recent ruling would seem to be in the ISPs favor: http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/971114/wired/stories/cda_1.html To sum it up: part of the CDA indicates that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" This woulds seem to indicate that an ISP can not be LEGALLY held accountable for the content published by a customer. (although in the case of UBE, I think the means, more so than the message, is the issue.) I don't think the issue of filtering comes into this at all. Perhaps if there was some way to filter based on usage instead of content, the legal issues would be a little clearer, as one could block off 'offenders' based on thier abuse of your usage policy. Comments? Paul Flores Williams Communication Group
Current thread:
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers, (continued)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Alan Barrett (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Karl Denninger (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Joe Shaw (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Karl Denninger (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Michael Dillon (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Vadim Antonov (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Karl Denninger (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers david (Nov 18)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Eric M. Carroll (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Stan Hanks (Nov 17)
- Re: Legal Issues on Blackholeing (was AGIS signing up New Spamme Paul Flores (Nov 17)
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- Re: Legal Issues on Blackholeing Curtis Brown (Nov 17)
- Re: Legal Issues on Blackholeing Eric Sobocinski (Nov 17)
- Re: Legal Issues on Blackholeing (was AGIS signing up New Spamme Stan Hanks (Nov 17)
- Re: Legal Issues on Blackholeing (was AGIS signing up New Spamme Henry Linneweh (Nov 17)
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- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Jay R. Ashworth (Nov 17)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Martin Hannigan (Nov 17)
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- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Kent W. England (Nov 20)
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- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers Jay R. Ashworth (Nov 21)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers J.D. Falk (Nov 21)
- Re: AGIS Signing up New Spammers James K. Hood (Nov 14)