Charles Stack on Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:28:39 -0400 (EDT) |
I agree, this is a very good suggestion. It fulfills the requirements of the law in that the user must request the file rather than having it pushed to unwitting recipients. At this point, the onus is placed on the content provider to ensure that other legal requirements are met (such as age requirements) and removes the burden from the list. cjs -----Original Message----- From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of Joel A. Matz Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 11:13 PM To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] neal / file attachments (was: surge projectors) I have to say, your important safety tip is the most constructive thing to come out of this thread. I don't agree with what he did but there's no reason not to try to approach the solution set with a logical & enlightened attitude. cheers, Joel Darxus@ChaosReigns.com wrote: > > I've resubscribed him, and suggested that he post a url to the image he > originally intended to post to this list. > > Policy note: It is almost universally inappropriate to post files to > mailing lists and newsgroups. The only exceptions being newgroups which > exist specifically to distribute binaries (where it is inappropriate to > post without a file attachment). > > Do not email files to this list. Put the file on the web somewhere, and > email a url to it to this list. > > Going to try to figure out how to put that in > http://www.PhillyLinux.org/faq.html > > -- > http://www.ChaosReigns.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug
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