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- From: davea@hotcity.COM (Dave Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs.allsysop
- Subject: Re: *** LEGAL HELP WANTED ***
- References: <DZuNwB5w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Message-ID: <davea.2hrx@hotcity.COM>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:46:48 PST
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 36
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- In article <DZuNwB5w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca>, lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca
- (Jason Cooper) writes:
- >davea@hotcity.COM (Dave Anderson) writes:
- >
- >> In article <o87JwB1w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca>, lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca
- >> (Jason Cooper) writes:
- >> >Anybody here know if it is possible to request "common carrier status"
- >> >for a BBS? For those of you not familiar with this, or perhaps looking
- >> >for an american equivalent, this status is granted to services such as
- >> >radio stations and telephone companies, and absolves them of all
- ... ... ...
- >>
- >> This is a LOADED question..... If you have not read or heard of them yet,
- ma
- >> I recomend that you first check out BBS Digest and Boardwatch. These are
- the
- >> two magazines that cater to us in the BBS world (both users and sysops).
- >> Another sourse is your local sysop group. And then there is a book
- "Syslaw".
- ... ... ...
-
-
- Okay, got the book right here: "Syslaw"; By - Lance Rose, ESQ and Johathan
- Wallace, ESQ; Publisher is LOL Productions in conjunction with PC Information
- Group, Inc., 1126 East Broadway, Winona, MN 55987. Sorry I see no ISBN
- number.
- I think that most of us fall under the classification that you are presenting
- and feew that unless we (the Sysop) has reason to belive that there is a reson
- to belive thesoftware or user to be suspicious of, then you have little to
- worrie about, criminally that is. Civial liability is another story, you know
- what a sue happy culture we are - here in the USA, anyway. I think that I
- would give any pirate activity the boot from my system rether than reporting
- it, also.
-
-
- Dave, This T E S T BBS, 408-847-5251
-