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Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:07:13 -0400
I assume you were about to provide us with one great legal case cite. Don't be shy, go right ahead. On August 9, 2006 at 13:57 apoindex () aoc nrao edu (Allan Poindexter) wrote:
John Levine <nanog () johnlevine com> writes:Allan> I would let any ISP I use make this mistake once. After that Allan> the individuals responsible would be up on ECPA charges. John> I suppose any ISP foolish enough not to disclaim ECPA John> confidentiality gets what it deserves. The ECPA doesn't provide any mechanism to explicitly disclaim responsibility under it. Even if it did such a disclaimer would undermine any claim to anything like common carrier status for an ISP This would make the ISP vulnerable to such things as libel based on user's content. This strikes me as jumping out of the spam/virus frying pan into the defamation fire.
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- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Ken Simpson (Aug 11)
- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Florian Weimer (Aug 10)
- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Suresh Ramasubramanian (Aug 10)
- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Hank Nussbacher (Aug 10)
- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Simon Waters (Aug 11)
- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Peter Corlett (Aug 11)
- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Barry Shein (Aug 09)
- Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam Allan Poindexter (Aug 09)