On Wed, 7 Aug 1996 19:53:25 +0200 Eric Thomas said: >>other tort category designed to protect people from public embarrasment >>and possible resulting loss of income. > >As long as it is public knowledge that you kicked them off the list, they >can sue for defamation of character. > Along with the others, I'm not a lawyer. But, t'would seem that filtering someone is not the same (or not necessarily, in court, under oath) defamation of character. You could have kicked them off for many other reasons, such as persistent mail bounces, etc, etc. Now if you were a victim of bad judgment (such as sending them an email saying you were kicking them off) then you might have a problem. But if I just filter somebody there is nothing in the header that says why I did so. And, since it is their problem to prove that I did something defaming them, they'd better have copies of email, etc, to prove it. That doesn't mean I want to face some jerk in court, but unless the person is in the same community, or at least state, it is going to cost them a small fortune to even START the action. And, they'd have to be pretty convinced that I've got deep enough pockets for there to be something for them to collect, too. Note, I'm not saying this isn't a theoretical issue, but I'm sure not going to lose sleep over it. I'll worry a lot more about getting hit by a log truck on the way home tonite. I'll also say that I remove my filters after about six months rather than leave them to accumulate eternally. None of them have ever come back to haunt me after that. cyclops Dan Lester, Network Information Coordinator Albertsons Library, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho 83725 USA [log in to unmask] http://cyclops.idbsu.edu/ How can one fool make another wise? Kansas, "No One Together," 1979