CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

[David Honig]

At 05:53 PM 9/14/00 -0400, L. Sassaman wrote:
>
>I don't enjoy the fact that some people are being harassed through my
>remailer. But I cannot prevent that without limiting the effectiveness of
>the remailer. 
>
>Have there been any court rulings that define the level of liability for
>remops whose remailers are used to facilitate criminal actions?
>
>Is someone like myself, running a public remailer, considered an ISP? (I'm
>thinking of the Prodigy ruling, where Prodigy was deemed not responsible
>for content posted on its BBS system.)
>

Shouldn't your remailer include 1. mention of what it is 2. how to exclude
an address
from being a destination?  

It has not yet reached the supremes, nor do I imagine you want to fund that
path.
We can only hope your upstreams have as much backbone as you.