At 8:09 AM -0800 1/30/98, Mitchell Leben wrote:
> This is a 'normal' list open to the public. I do not charge for
> membership, and zubscription is the member's choice.
Oh, just as one more aside. This is one reason why my list
documentation explictly states that use of the list is a privilege
given unto my users -- and that priviledge can be revoked. It might not
be a strict legal protection, but it keeps people from trying to make
claims that I have no ability to keep them off the list. ("I own it.
You use it because I say you can. Don't like it? Start your own". Well,
I say it more nicely than that, but...)
Unfortunately, I've found there are times when common sense issues need
to be explictly spelled out. The trick is to figure out which ones they
are, and spell them out (and not build your docs so bloody large by
spelling out everything that they become worthless in the other
direction...)
And while I think about it -- as soon as lawyers are mentioned, start
Cc:ing *all* correspondence to his postmaster, and forward copies of
his mail to his postmaster, too. Send the postmaster a polite note
letting him know that a user on his site has threatened legal action on
you, and you want the postmaster to be aware of this, because his site
may become involved in the legal action, and that because you might be
forced to stop accepting mail from his site if this threat becomes a
reality.
The practical effect of this, actually, is that the postmaster usually
beats the idiot senseless. But it doesn't hurt to get a third party
involved in the correspondence (and it's not an idle thing -- if you
two DO go to court, the guys running *his* site are going to get
dragged in, too) and perhaps helping to moderate the situation between
you. And if not, at least they can't pretend to be shocked when the
summons occurs.
--
Chuq Von Rospach (chuq@apple.com) Apple IS&T Mail List Gnome
<http://www.solutions.apple.com/ListAdmin/>
Plaidworks Consulting (chuqui@plaidworks.com) <http://www.plaidworks.com/>
(<http://www.plaidworks.com/hockey/> +-+ The home for Hockey on the net)
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