[Asrg] DNSBL BCP - enough, already, of the amateur lawyering

SM sm at resistor.net
Wed Apr 2 09:10:24 PDT 2008


At 08:16 02-04-2008, John Levine wrote:
>So I think we MUST take out anythink that's likely to be read as legal
>advice.

Yes.

>On the other hand, if this BCP is successful, we can expect people to
>wave it around in court cases to try to establish that some blacklist
>does or does not act in accordance with industry standards.  So please
>concentrate on making it clear, and keeping in mind the C, not too far
>from what respectable BLs do now.

That's something to consider before being added to the 
acknowledgements.  Having the document as a BCP from the authors' 
perspective instead of a "CP" is better.

Regards,
-sm 



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