[37031] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL Terms and Conditions -- Revealed!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Apr 30 01:42:09 2001
Message-Id: <200104300539.f3U5dqx24978@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: Bryan Bradsby <Bryan.Bradsby@capnet.state.tx.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:24:49 CDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:39:52 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:24:49 CDT, Bryan Bradsby said:
> As soon as your packet enters AOL, it must comply with their TOS, or they
> may drop it.
The problem is that what you mention is a *long* way from the actual
situation, where Alan Clegg's organization - which hosts mailing lists
that are posted to by <gasp> *users*, has to agree that nothing will
ever be posted that violates the AOL TOS *before any traffic will be
accepted at all*.
Valdis Kletnieks
Operating Systems Analyst
Virginia Tech
