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Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

  • From: Eric A. Hall
  • Date: Thu Aug 18 02:48:01 2005 
On 8/17/2005 10:04 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

> A new law that's apparently the first in the nation threatens to
> penalize Internet service providers that fail to warn users that some
> dial-up numbers can ring up enormous long-distance phone bills even
> though they appear local.

aka, make ISPs liable for other people's fraud. What's the thinking here,
anybody know?

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