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Subject: Off-list Revenge (fwd)
From: nolan @ celery . tssi . com
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:40:43 -0600 (CST)
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . com (List Managers)

> Just got a message from a subscriber who claims that he was fired
> in part as a result of a dispute from one of my lists.  The guy
> who was fired made a rude remark.  The other party complained to
> the fired guy's employer.  Fired guy was subscribed using his
> work account.  That's as much as I know so far...  Anyone had a
> similar situation they are willing to discuss?

I know of someone who quit his job over the issue of access to e-mail
for non-business purposes, and I've heard of several threatened lawsuits
arising from list flame wars, but so far as I know none were filed.
(I've been threatened with lawsuits a few times as the List Manager, too.)

I know of at least one case of an ISP being notified about a flame war
that moved over to private e-mail which resulted in the account being 
deactivated.  Most of the time, though, the ISP does nothing.
--
Mike Nolan


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