The way to avoid legal liability is to understand what you are doing,
not to choose a different name.
Courts know that very few employment blacklists are called blacklists.
They are always called something else. So simply changing the name does
not allow a defendant to get the court to strike out an argument.
Other companies have operated businesses that were predicted to be
considerably more littigation prone without seeing a single lawsuit on
that set of issues to date.
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From: asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
[mailto:asrg-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Justin Mason
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 1:20 PM
To: william(at)elan.net
Cc: asrg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; Seth Breidbart
Subject: Re: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl-02.txt
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"william(at)elan.net" writes:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Seth Breidbart wrote:
Suppose someone implemented a list which for any IP
address returned
127.0.x.y, where x.y mapped into how spammy the list maintainer
thought the IP address was. It could be used as both a whitelist
("if the score is low, accept") and blocklist ("if the score is
high,
reject") as well as for other purposes ("if the score is
low but not
low enough for auto-accept, subtract 2 from the
SpamAssassin score;
if it's high but not too high, add 2; if the list says
the IP emits
much but not all spam, run these extra checks").
Do please pick a name. I've been working on prototype
(actually two of
them) for system similar to described above ('spamness' determined
based on presense of ips in ipblock in multiple blacklists).
Many commercial firms seem to call them "reputation
services". That's a very nebulous PR name though, a better
technically-descriptive name would be welcome.
for what it's worth, IADB is another one along those lines --
quite long-standing at this stage.
http://www.isipp.com/iadb.php
- --j.
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