[asterisk-biz] European VoIP providers
Christopher Bergström
cbergstrom at netsyncro.com
Sat Jan 14 08:19:06 MST 2006
trixter aka Bret McDanel wrote:
>On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 16:26 +0200, Christopher Bergström wrote:
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>>You're trying to be somewhat politically correct.. This takes away from
>>the fun of it..
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>I forgot my book of snappy insults :) Plus sending an email with the
>intent to annoy is now illegal in america (it was a rider tacked onto a
>bill no one could really vote against - unclear if it will be enforced,
>but a felony for being anoying? That is a bit much and possibly
>unconstitutional if not at least vague, there is no legal definition of
>'anoying').
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I love US law... It's so grand.. Anyhow, they can only enforce it
within their boundaries and to those poor folks where they have a
military presence.. Both circumstances I'd like to avoid..
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>>btw.. I'm highly considering forking this list and starting a moderated
>>* biz list elsewhere.. I'll keep everyone posted/spammed of my
>>intentions or contact me offlist with ideas/feedback.
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>good luck with that, dunno how well forked lists work, people have tried
>for other reasons and those have never worked out well (specifically
>with the asterisk community). And if you cause either too high of a
>delay or to ostrict of a moderation filter it may not be liked by enough
>people and that in itself causes problems.
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I was planning to hand moderate and the real volume of this list is low
enough to not be a burden at all.
>Also a note, if you plan on either having the list in the US or serving
>US people with the list research um ??? v Prodigy Networks sometime in
>the late 80s/very very early 90s. There is another case, I want to say
>it involved Netcom with the inverse results, but dont remember this was
>a case I studied back in 1992-1994 sometime when I was first starting to
>really study law.
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>Prodigy had censored their lists, and then stopped. 3 months later
>while uncensored some trade secrets were posted. Prodigy was found not
>guilty because they no longer moderated. The courts decided that if you
>moderate you implicitly approve everything that gets through and you
>open yourself to a certain level of liability. There was an inverse
>case that proved that part of it.
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>The Church of Scientology v Netcom was a similar but not quite identical
>case where someone posted trade secrets (their brain washing techniques
>and such - at least CoS claimed that info was trade secret protected).
>Netcom refused to reveal the users true identity for the usenet posting
>and cancel that users account so they were found guilty (I think its an
>obscure ruling but meh).
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>moderated lists can get you into trouble if you arent really careful :/
>At least in america - and the laws here generally apply to a list or
>service if there is one customer from here that is a subscriber.
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#1 CoS.. If I even dare comment the hordes of minions may come upon my
door.
(Is this truly a business list? I don't remember reading that my
personal comments are completely unacceptable ;)
Anyhow, that is great info to have.. I'll consider it.. I suppose this
is just another reason for me to move my servers to a country with more
"sane" laws..
Anyone know where I can get quality colo
1/4 rack to 1/2 rack..
Minimum 20Mbit commit at 30USD per Mbit (or even close to this pricing)
PRI interconnect
Not within the US or territories and in Europe
C.
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