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Article #257Sysop liability discussion
From: Robert A. Rosenberg
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 14:09
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 14:09
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At 0:39 11/23/94, David Smith wrote: >Because one of their users is accused of posting a defamatory >message on one of their message bases, Prodigy has just been >slapped with a $100 million dollar libel lawsuit. As owner >and moderator of the message base, Prodigy is being held >accountable for the actions of their users. Prodigy is not a normal case since they pre-screen every message before it gets posted. They thus are in the posting loop as opposed to other BBS Services (like Genie, AoL and CIS) where the message gets immediately posted with no SYSOP intervention and the SYSOPs find out about it when one of them reads it as a user or when a user complains.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 126c00,1fcbe477aa354d45 X-Google-Attributes: gid126c00,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-01 06:10:03 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!cs.utexas.edu!zilker.net!not-for-mail From: hal9001@panix.com (Robert A. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: austin.eff Subject: Sysop liability discussion Date: 1 Dec 1994 08:09:37 -0600 Organization: none Lines: 17 Sender: daemon@zilker.net Approved: newsgate Message-ID: <199412011409.IAA20341@oak.zilker.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.zilker.net X-Unparseable-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 02:00:26 -0500