ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
Barry Shein
bzs at world.std.com
Thu Aug 10 03:07:13 UTC 2006
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 apoindex at aoc.nrao.edu (Allan Poindexter) wrote:
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> >>>>> John Levine <nanog at johnlevine.com> writes:
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> Allan> I would let any ISP I use make this mistake once. After that
> Allan> the individuals responsible would be up on ECPA charges.
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> John> I suppose any ISP foolish enough not to disclaim ECPA
> John> confidentiality gets what it deserves.
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> 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.
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