Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!ukma!hsdndev!spdcc!dirtydog!ima.isc.com!rowan From: rowan@ima.isc.com (Rowan Hawthorne) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy Message-ID: <1991Mar29.151152.22304@ima.isc.com> Date: 29 Mar 91 15:11:52 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ima.isc.com Reply-To: rowan@ima.isc.com Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138 Lines: 26 In article , emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: |> Note in particular the phrase that |> 4. ANS networks must not be used to transmit any |> communication where the meaning of the message, or its |> transmission or distribution, would violate any |> applicable law or regulation or would likely be highly |> offensive to the recipient or recipients thereof. |> |> "highly offensive" is deliberately vague; my gloss on this is that ANS |> could use this clause as it sees fit to squash out any sort of traffic |> it didn't like, under only the smallest of pretexts. I would say that this should be clearly defined the way that the U.S. Postal service defines it: obscenity is defined by the recipient. ANS should not engage in censorship of traffic, unless requested to by the recipient of mail deemed obscene. In general, the USPS engages in censorship (refusal to deliver messages) only at the request of recipients or law enforcement agencies. Rowan Email rowan@ima.isc.com Fax->email 508-294-0128 Fax (ISC) 617-661-2070 Phone 617-661-7474 x206 upstream from the last bend in the Charles River