At  6:54 AM 12/3/94 -0500, Elliott Parker wrote:
>appears in the 23 Nov issue of Chronicle of Higher Education.
>(a US publication for college and university staff/faculty)
>    In brief, the article considers whether a list owner can
>ban/delete somebody from a list.
>    From somebody who is in the middle of this kind of situation,
>the article is interesting, even if it doesn't offer any solution.
>    And yes, I would still drop a subscriber if they insist
>on disrupting a list.
>
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>Elliott Parker                   Bitnet: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM
>List Owner, SEASIA-L and CARR-L  Internet: [log in to unmask]
 
I just had an interesting experience. I attempted to join a list, and got a
return message back with a number of explicit rules of behaviour with
regard to posting messages, and using the subscriber list for commercial
purposes (basically it is banned). In order to subscribe I have to send an
agreement back to the owner.
 
This was a netcom based list. I've queried the owner as to whether that was
required by netcom (based on their difficulities) or if it was something he
came up with by himself.
 
Seems like it might avoid some potential problems if you had a
"pre-nuptial" :-) agreement from list subscribers that they were going to
be good net citizens.
 
THANKS
 
 
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