[7294] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: WWW privacy and confidentiality
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas -- not Tom -- Maslen)
Sat Jan 21 23:14:45 1995
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 1995 04:27:44 +0100
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Reply-To: tmaslen@verity.com
From: Thomas -- not Tom -- Maslen <tmaslen@verity.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> Putting up a WWW server is in some very real sense equivalent to opening a
> store for business. In a litiginous society, any ofering of public
> services is accompanied by some risk of attracting adverse legal action.
> It might be a good idea for WWW providers to get (and share?) some legal
> advice on these issues.
.. or, if the climate within the US gets just too silly, think about
electronically moving offshore (what do those first two W's stand for,
again?). What's the going price on a T3 in Liberia, Panama or the Cayman
Islands, anyway?
Thomas
tmaslen@verity.com My opinions, not Verity's