> Heh, by that definition, Mail.com, Critical Path, and all the
> other email
> outsourcing companies are private. Not a good definition, though.
Let me rephrase the "make money" part. It's only private if you don't
receive goods or services in exchange for use of your services. Bleh, if I
knew there were lawyers on this list.
> Mail.com can write their contracts however they want; I suspect they
> include provisions which cover their spam filtering and not being held
> liable for any damages from filtering errors that
> inadvertently prevent legitimate mail from getting through.
Possibly, but unless they're covered by article 2B, they probably have no
protection from that.
