AOL Terms and Conditions -- Revealed!

Mon Apr 30 05:39:52 UTC 2001

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:24:49 CDT, Bryan Bradsby said:
> As soon as your packet enters AOL, it must comply with their TOS, or they
> may drop it.

The problem is that what you mention is a *long* way from the actual
situation, where Alan Clegg's organization - which hosts mailing lists
that are posted to by <gasp> *users*, has to agree that nothing will
ever be posted that violates the AOL TOS *before any traffic will be
accepted at all*.

				Valdis Kletnieks
				Operating Systems Analyst
				Virginia Tech