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Re: what the heck do i do now?
From: Mark Foster <blakjak () blakjak net>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:16:41 +1300 (NZDT)
list... I talked to my lawyer. And while I am not a lawyer, I can tell you that my lawyer pointed out several interesting legal theories under which I could have some serious liability, and so I don't do that any more. (As an example, consider what happens *to you* if a hospital stops getting emailed results back from their outside laboratory service because their "email firewall" is checking your server, and someone dies as a result of the delay)So while I think you'd be justified in doing it, I think you'd find that 1) lots of people wouldn't change their configs at all, and 2) you might find that your liability insurance doesn't cover deliberate acts.
Uhm. I don't follow?Once you've taken all reasonable measures to tell said hospital that you're no responsible, nor inclined, to forward their mail - and they continue to ignore your warnings - surely responsibility passes to the person who ignores the warnings? (Hospital Systems Engineer and/or IT Management? Or the person who relied on Email for a life-or-death application?)
If theres no contract between you and said hospital, and you've taken reasonable steps to prevent a mishap, how is it your liability?
Or is this where I get to say 'only in America' ??To be more relevant to the original problem, I think Paul has every right to do what he wishes with the DNS entry, short of causing anyone else a Denial of Service. (Can't be said hes denying service to any of the clients involved, as they've had no 'service' from him since 1999, as stated...)
Mark.
Current thread:
- what the heck do i do now? Paul Vixie (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Randy Bush (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Derek J. Balling (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Steve Sobol (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Barry Shein (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Brian Wallingford (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Chris L. Morrow (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Matthew Kaufman (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Mark Foster (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Chris Owen (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Mark Foster (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Derek J. Balling (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Randy Bush (Jan 31)
- RE: what the heck do i do now? Gregory Taylor (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Paul Vixie (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Jon Lewis (Jan 31)
- Re: what the heck do i do now? Ross Hosman (Jan 31)