On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 16:26 +0200, Christopher Bergström wrote: > You're trying to be somewhat politically correct.. This takes away from > the fun of it.. > I forgot my book of snappy insults :) Plus sending an email with the intent to annoy is now illegal in america (it was a rider tacked onto a bill no one could really vote against - unclear if it will be enforced, but a felony for being anoying? That is a bit much and possibly unconstitutional if not at least vague, there is no legal definition of 'anoying').
> btw.. I'm highly considering forking this list and starting a moderated > * biz list elsewhere.. I'll keep everyone posted/spammed of my > intentions or contact me offlist with ideas/feedback. > good luck with that, dunno how well forked lists work, people have tried for other reasons and those have never worked out well (specifically with the asterisk community). And if you cause either too high of a delay or to ostrict of a moderation filter it may not be liked by enough people and that in itself causes problems. Also a note, if you plan on either having the list in the US or serving US people with the list research um ??? v Prodigy Networks sometime in the late 80s/very very early 90s. There is another case, I want to say it involved Netcom with the inverse results, but dont remember this was a case I studied back in 1992-1994 sometime when I was first starting to really study law. Prodigy had censored their lists, and then stopped. 3 months later while uncensored some trade secrets were posted. Prodigy was found not guilty because they no longer moderated. The courts decided that if you moderate you implicitly approve everything that gets through and you open yourself to a certain level of liability. There was an inverse case that proved that part of it. The Church of Scientology v Netcom was a similar but not quite identical case where someone posted trade secrets (their brain washing techniques and such - at least CoS claimed that info was trade secret protected). Netcom refused to reveal the users true identity for the usenet posting and cancel that users account so they were found guilty (I think its an obscure ruling but meh). moderated lists can get you into trouble if you arent really careful :/ At least in america - and the laws here generally apply to a list or service if there is one customer from here that is a subscriber. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
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