(OT) Re: Mail servers changes (INFO)

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 22:14:30 2000

<> 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.

In the radio biz during the early 70s FCC was as powerful as IRS and
equally inclined to take actions as they saw fit. THe only one that
Had official common carrier back then was TPC (The Telephone Company)
Loosing a license for a repeater could mean a lot of lost business.
The profit was from service contracts on the users as the repeater was
not a profit mechanism. This may have changed in the last 20 years.
So no law said so but I did use the word civil penelty. Also other
customers hearing the bad stuff on the repeater (despite PL tone)
often did complain.


Allison
Received on Thu Feb 24 2000 - 22:14:30 GMT