From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 1 13:39:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E99337B722 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:39:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 85748 invoked by uid 100); 1 Apr 2001 20:39:16 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15047.37364.766670.386170@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:39:16 -0500 To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Mike Meyer , hamellr@heorot.1nova.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: email question In-Reply-To: <3AC627DF.BE011F45@nisser.com> References: <15045.24947.102841.710362@guru.mired.org> <3AC627DF.BE011F45@nisser.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Roelof Osinga types: > > FWIW, The World was recently sued for damages because their spam > > scanners dropped some non-spam mail. The court upheld their right to > > do this. > Yeah, well, personally I feel that the best solution is to define a > clear policy, publish it good - i.e. circumvent the 'but how could I > know?' - have legal eyes check it over and implement it. It's hard to have a clear policy for rules that are changing on a regular basis. Stating that you do filter in the TOS - which all users have agreed to follow and so presumably read, right? - should do. Actually, the claimant tried this in that case. The World asked if anyone knew the security rules used by their phone company, and that pretty much killed that argument. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message