Mailing list liability (fwd)

[Rich Graves]

Sorry if someone already brought this up, but I don't see it
threading back. (I haven't read the article, either, but I
probably will, since soon I'll be mentoring a political group
in addition to the two technical groups I moderate.)

-rich

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:24:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark Eckenwiler <eck at panix.com>
To: cyberia-l at listserv.aol.com, moderators at uunet.uu.net
Subject: New law review article re Usenet moderators


Taylor, Jeffrey M., Liability of Usenet Moderators for
Defamation Published by Others: Flinging the Law of Defamation Into
Cyberspace, Florida Law Review April 1995. v. 47, n. 2 pp. 247-86

I have not yet read it, so I can't vouch for quality of analysis.

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"We can imagine no reason why, with ordinary care, human toes could not be
left out of chewing tobacco, and if toes are found in chewing tobacco, it
seems to us that somebody has been very careless."  _Pillars v. R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co._, 78 So. 365, 366 (Miss. 1918). |  Mark Eckenwiler  eck at panix.com