On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:09:39 -0700 Bob Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To get un-blacklisted, their legal dept. wants one to sign one's life > away. See: > http://www.mailinglists.org/aol/ > which contains the actual document from AOL's legal staff. Read it. > It is absurd. I'll comment merely that the only item there I find validly objectionable is #13. All mail from Mailinglists.org must have a valid non-internet (a phone number, a snail mail address, etc.) contact in the text of every message. Which is not surprising given the corporate marketing mail I expect they are geared towards. All the rest, encluding the bits about monitoring, are both standard practice and expectable. Heck, its like the Squid logs at most corporates. Typically company policy is that those logs are private, will not be examined, and will not reviewed, reported etc. However, we all know full well that at the very first instant there's an suspicion of just cause that those very logs will be hauled on deck and used... You sent a byte into my network? Fine. What I do with it from there is up to me, encluding silent discard, public rebroadcast, or insertion into my bork filter. cf the MAPS and the Above.net routing debate. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
