[Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP - "collateral damage"

[Martin Hannigan]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:
> This is a followup to one particular section:
>
>  But I chose
>  those ridiculous policies to emphasize that a site furnishing services
>  (like SMTP) is the sole and final arbiter of the terms and conditions
>  under which it will do so, and if that site chooses to implement these
>  or some considerably less far-fetched policies, whatever those policies
>  are, they don't cause any "damage".  They merely grant/deny a privilege,
>  as the case may be.
>
>  Since those requesting services are never entitled to those privileges,
>  they can never claim that they are "damaged" if their request is denied.
>  They might (variously) be upset, disappointed or even surprised
>  (especially if someone is using the prime number policy, any sane
>  person would use the Fibonacci sequence) but they're not damaged.
>
>  ---Rsk
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I'm not a lawyer and I try not to play one on the Internet, but this
makes a lot of sense to me. It's much akin to claiming that you've
been 'censored' on a private system. Private systems don't censor,
they assert their rights.

Best,

Martin