On Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:13:37 PDT john riehl said:
>without that persons consent.  In the case of a mailing list,
>there is an implied consent to the listowner, of restricting discussion
>to the topic and form of the list.
>
Could somebody expand on this "implication?"  It might be more
ammunition when I ask somebody to take his pearls of wisdom someplace
else.
    I have some unmoderated, open lists and when things get
completely outside the topic of the list, I send email to the
person/persons asking them politely to stop.  By then, probably
they have already received enough flamemail from other subscribers
there is no problem.  Problem solved.
    But sometimes they ask who am I to say what can be posted on
the list.  That tempts me to say "I'm the owner, that's who." :-)
(But, I don't, at least until I delete them or set them to nomail.)options nolo
gsually an explanation of how lists are set up will suffice, but
I'm always looking for a better rationale.
 
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