(OT) Re: Mail servers changes (INFO)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 17:11:02 2000

Allison wrote:
> Common carrier status is often implied as part fo a generic communications
> service. I had to deal with this 30 years ago with RCC(radio common
> carrier) otherwise known as UHF repeaters. We were if anything indirectly
> responseable for FCC language mandates if not by law certainly by possible
> civil penelty. So if we had a customer that tended to run a little hard
> with a seven deadly dirty words it was a risk to us as well. So it was a
> condition of service or else...

If you were a Common Carrier, the material transmitted by your customers
would not be your problem. If you had to police it, you were NOT a
Common Carrier.
Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 17:11:02 GMT