Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bryan Caldwell wrote: > > As one of the resident attorneys here (ducking . . . <g> ), I need to point > out that the First Amendment doesn't apply to this list. There are many > members who are not contributing from the United States, and, even in the > U.S., the First Amendment protects against government regulation of speech - > not the negative responses of others. As long as the government is not > regulating the content of the LUG, the First Amendment does not come in to > play. > > Bryan > >snip I was wondering if because of the physical/technical structure of this group: being an Email Reflectorship we would have some more rights than a Newsgroup. A Newsgroup would seem to be a form of broadcasting but we are just a controlled distribution of E Mails. A group of friends sitting around talking; or 777 of them. As there is probably no precedent for trying to prove a libel or some such case against a discussion in a Email list or even a newsgroup that makes it hard to determine. Mark Rabiner