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I assume you were about to provide us with one great legal case cite. Don't be shy, go right ahead. On August 9, 2006 at 13:57 [email protected] (Allan Poindexter) wrote: > > >>>>> John Levine <[email protected]> writes: > > Allan> I would let any ISP I use make this mistake once. After that > Allan> the individuals responsible would be up on ECPA charges. > > John> I suppose any ISP foolish enough not to disclaim ECPA > John> confidentiality gets what it deserves. > > The ECPA doesn't provide any mechanism to explicitly disclaim > responsibility under it. Even if it did such a disclaimer would > undermine any claim to anything like common carrier status for an ISP > This would make the ISP vulnerable to such things as libel based on > user's content. This strikes me as jumping out of the spam/virus > frying pan into the defamation fire. > > > > -- -Barry Shein The World | [email protected] | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Login: Nationwide Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*
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