On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:18:38PM -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 18:22, Bill Sconce wrote: > > If that ISP should elect to scan what you write and sell the > > resulting information, they're essentially free to do so. > > Except that ISPs are governed by the "Common Carrier" laws - the same > laws that protect them from liable lawsuits. There is *some* privacy > guarantee there, but not much. And most of what is there has been > significantly diluted by the "anti-terrorism acts" (at least with > regards to the government). >
ISP's are Common Carrier's? Interesting. During discussions about ISPs refusing to accept SMTP connections from Dynamic IP addresses it was argued that ISPs are not Common Carriers and therefore can practice that particular form of censure to protect their customer's email streams, whereas a Common Carrier. like a telephone company is required to put all connections through, even ones originating from known 900-number switching fraud sources. Anybody know what ISP's real status is vis-a-vis being/not being a Common Carrier? -- Linux and Open Source. The New Base. Now All your base belongs to you, for free. Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
