[83533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu Aug 18 02:45:51 2005
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 02:44:59 -0400
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050817.190529.19411.37342@webmail28.lax.untd.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 8/17/2005 10:04 PM, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> A new law that's apparently the first in the nation threatens to
> penalize Internet service providers that fail to warn users that some
> dial-up numbers can ring up enormous long-distance phone bills even
> though they appear local.
aka, make ISPs liable for other people's fraud. What's the thinking here,
anybody know?
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Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
