On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ron DuFresne wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Did you obtain the permission to send mail to this mailing list from the
> > > owner of the machine and network that it resides on? NO? YOU MUST BE
> > > BREAKING THE LAW by sending your mail then... by your definition.
> > >
> >
> > Actually, by joining the list, did they not get permission?
>
> Ron,
>
> If and only if the owner of the list is also the legal owner of the
> machine and the networking equipment, which may or may not be true in the
> case of this list, and generally is NOT true among the widespread internet
> servers.
>
Unless if the legal owner of the machines has some agreement with the
maintainer or 'listowner'. As long as the agreement between parties is
'valid' so are those posts from us that subscribe to the list 'legitmat'
until that agreement is no longer valid between the parties in question.
Very similiar to the situation with the packetstorm site and the college
machines on which it rode, yes?
The only way I can see that submitting a comment to this list could be
construed as an intrusion or misuse of resources would be if the system<s>
on which it is run had been hacked and the list software installed behind
the backs of the admin/owners of the machines in question.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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