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To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: How to limit bulk mails. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 06:27:10 +0200."
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Leif Neland wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.4.05.9906030621220.79067-100000@arnold.neland.dk>:
> Can't you put any (almost) clause into the subscriber licence agreement?

You apparently have to be careful with this sort of thing. ISPs cannot
impose punitive damages, as they are not a court of law. If you charge
them a <X> dollar fee for spamming from your dialops, you have to be
willing to prove (in a court of law) that the `fine' is infact a
justifiable recovery of costs (*NOT* including damages) from the users
actions (i.e. hiring abuse staff, paper trail, etc).

I'm not a lawyer, so I could be wrong, but thats what our local abuse
types say...


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