On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ron DuFresne wrote:
> > 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 until that agreement is no longer valid between the parties in question.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?
Theoretically, that's the case. But in reality it's just naive. Lots of
people break their TOS agreements on a daily basis. As an example, do you
know anyone that has a MediaOne account that runs some sort of server on
their machine? I'd guess you almost must. Well, guess what, MediaOne
says you can't do that.
Technically, when you access that server, you are intruding on mediaone,
since they don't allow the service. Fortunately, MediaOne only shuts off
the service of their user. But if the laws worked the way some people
suggest on this list there really isn't anything stopping them from going
after the user on the other end, other than common sense.
Derek D. Martin | UNIX System Administrator
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