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Article #259Sysop liability discussion
From: Robert A. Rosenberg
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 14:11
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 14:11
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At 8:00 11/24/94, David Smith wrote: >On Thu, 24 Nov 1994, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >> 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. >> >> > >This is incorrect. Prodigy no longer pre-screens each and every message, >abandoning that practice at least a year, probably longer. The amount of >moderation that Prodigy actually does perform, and whether they knew the >message existed, is going to be critical to their defense. > >This is why we sponsor Sysop Liability Workshops :-) > Oh. It looks like I am not up to date on Prodigy's Moderation Status. I apologize for the out-of-date comment <g>. Isn't the Cubby [?] vs Compuserve Ruling in their favor?
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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 06:11:35 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 08:11:22 -0600 Organization: none Lines: 26 Sender: daemon@zilker.net Approved: newsgate Message-ID: <199412011410.IAA20679@oak.zilker.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: oak.zilker.net X-Unparseable-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 00:30:51 -0500