>> The website now has a terms of service document for how to use the >> NTP Pool --
>> http://www.ntppool.org/tos.html (Hmm, I wonder why I didn't see that mail. Perhaps it's sitting in a queue somewhere....) Quoting from that page, > 8. This TOS shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the > laws of the State of California, excluding its conflicts of law > rules. I have now (I think) ceased all use of the pool. I don't know California law and I am not willing to learn its ins and outs just for the sake of using the pool. Nor am I willing to buy the pig in a poke of agreeing to something under legal rules I have no familiarity with. I have also shut off public NTP service on my (former) pool host[%]. The pool I joined did not impose terms that unreasonable on its users and I do not want to be part of any pool that does. [%] Actually, I haven't shut off NTP. What I have done is remove the address which in the pool from its network configuration; nothing answers on that address now. (NTP pool service was the last reason I had to keep that address live.) Anyone is still welcome to get chime from it privately on any of its other addresses (216.46.0.66 or 216.46.14.122; it also has 2610:98:8001:ff::4, 2610:98:8001:ff::100, and 2610:98:8001:ff::3, but the ::100 address is likely to go away soon and all v6 to it is currently broken anyway). I suspect most jurisdictions would rule it unenforceable when there is nothing that ensures that prospective pool users are even aware it exists, much less see it, before starting to use the pool - I certainly wasn't aware of it until I saw the quote I double-quoted above. But I also am not interested in being a test case, especially not in a foreign jurisdiction; nor, having seen the above, am I willing to play the "unaware of it, thus no contract" card now. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
