Xref: utzoo news.groups:21725 comp.sys.atari.st:29010 misc.legal:18972 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!jack From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.atari.st,misc.legal Subject: Re: The comp.sys.atari.st.tech vote -- clarifications Message-ID: <5486@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Date: 15 Jun 90 16:07:46 GMT References: <1990May15.131803.17231@wam.umd.edu> <18313@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990May18.214123.14992@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1990May22.023212.9736@melba.bby.oz.au> <1990Jun14.210540.3455@water.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie, Unthank Lines: 26 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Keywords: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) wrote: > I think that even if some unsolicited product arrives by mail, and you > don't want it, you may be under some obligation to take reasonable > precautions for it until the rightful owner shows up. I think this is true under English law; but under Scots law you have an unconditional right to do what you like with anything that drops through your mailbox. I once used that, when working in a radical bookshop; we were sent a sample copy of an English-produced booklet aimed at anti-nuclear demonstrators purporting to describe their rights under arrest. It totally ignored the existence of the Scottish legal system and could have got anyone using it here into DEEP shit. I scrawled some rude remarks on it and threw it into our freebies bin, telling the author/publishers that we weren't interested. They replied saying they still didn't believe the Scots legal system was different from the English one and could they have their sample back... -- -- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6044 work 041 556 1878 home JANET: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcvax and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913 INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: jack@glasgow.uucp