This is what gets me on this entire blocking issue and the "Joe the Lawyer" positions...
We support and maintain several online "family-oriented" and religious oriented portal communities and their companion e-mail services. We have all the appropriate legal Usage Agreements, Policies, etc. They basically state if something goes wrong it is not our fault, usage of services is "AS-IS", and if you don't like, then don't use our services, or if we don't like you - we will terminate your usage with us exercising our right to do so. So I am pretty sure our lawyers have us well covered regarding a law suit that we block SPAM? But what really gets to me from the "Joe the Lawyer" guys, is that a significant number of the Spam's we block are from PORN outfits targeted to our innocent and very often young community members. I say the hell to the free speech Spammer guys that are wanting to send my customers, clients, and community members PORN solicitations. I would rather defend myself to the Judge trying to protect the proliferation of PORN to children, than defend myself from blocking somebody's supposed right to send unsolicited e-mail. Ahh... my 2 cents anyway. I just feel no one has the right to send me crap I did not ask for, especially PORN solicitations into my children's e-mail box. Perhaps I am wrong legally as it relates to free rights and e-mail solicitations, but the PORN solicitation alone is enough to keep me fighting for my rights to block SPAM. Anyone know of a good legal resource on this issue and where I can reference for comparison some Usage Agreements and online Policies that have held up against these morons out there? I would like to have our lawyer's double check our usage agreements and policies on Spam filtering. Thanks. Don S. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] ORBZ shut down >That should be a major wake up call for any of you blocking messages! Another interesting point where "Joe the lawyer"'s argument backfires: Blacklisting could actually help PREVENT a similar lawsuit! Anyone who is adding the town of Battle Creek, Michigan (and other buggy mail servers) to their blacklists will minimize mail to these mail servers, which will in turn minimize the chances that they will get sent to jail for sending mail to those servers. -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ---------- [This e-mail scanned by CompBiz for Viruses. http://www.CompBiz.Net] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
