Xref: utzoo news.admin:7730 misc.legal:12384 Path: utzoo!censor!dybbuk!yunexus!davecb From: davecb@yunexus.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal Subject: Policy on Access to Information (was Usenet and legal liability) Message-ID: <5354@yunexus.UUCP> Date: 22 Nov 89 13:36:19 GMT References: <25683CAB.25106@ateng.com> <10771@max.u.washington.edu> <10814@max.u.washington.edu> Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 29 wcn@max.u.washington.edu (W C Newell Jr) writes: | I agree completely with the "nobody knows" part. The point I'm trying to make | is that I've heard valid legal arguments on both sides. I am getting very | frustrated with the recurrent postings by some admins which proclaim their | sites to be immune from liability, when there is another side to it and the | central issues have not been tested in court. To change the subject slightly, there is an organization within most universities (and some larger companies) which has a rich history and considerable experience with questions of censorship, liability and responsibility. Its called a library. If your organization has a library, speak to them. Ours has a large poster on the wall making our policy known to everyone, provided by the Canadian Library Association, stating the policy that we are signatories to. This might cast a little light onto an unnecessarily heated discussion. [the discussion of distribution contains light as well as heat, but perhaps less than it could (:-))] --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@yunexus, ...!yunexus!davecb or 72 Abitibi Ave., | {toronto area...}lethe!dave Willowdale, Ontario, | Joyce C-B: CANADA. 416-223-8968 | He's so smart he's dumb.