Thanks for the suggestion, Lauren. I'll see if I can find it. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: Lauren Boyd McLachlan [mailto:listsmonster@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:27 PM > To: Diana Gale Matthiesen > Cc: Listowners-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LO] subscribers must accept list messages > > I recall the requirement--- not blocking other listmembers as it > sends > bounces to the list. It was in the old Rootsweb Help information & > AUP. The current AUP is a mirror of Ancestry's and talks of > boards, > not lists. > > I suspect we would find the info via searching the LO archivers and > making use of the way back machine, if necessary -- to view the old > page(s). > > Lauren > > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Diana Gale Matthiesen > <DianaGM@dgmweb.net> wrote: > > I remember reading once, I thought in the RootsWeb "Acceptable Use > > Policy," that subscribing to a mailing list implied agreeing to > accept > > list messages, meaning not trying to blacklist individual > subscribers > > or causing list messages to bounce in some way.  I can't seem to > find > > that stipulation in the current AUP.  Does anyone else recall it > or > > know where it is? > > > > Diana > >

To a great extent, it comes under implied consent: just as you can't post to a mailing list, and then say "RootsWeb, I did not give you permission to share that email with the subscribers of that list, and so I am going to sue you for copyright violation." Posting to an email list has some implied permissions built in. Permission to distribute to other subscribers. Permission to archive, if the list is archived. Subscribing to the list also has some implied permissions built in: Permission to send me the posts from the list I subscribed to, in whatever mode (if there's a choice) I chose [i.e., list or digest]. There's an implied request to be sent email by subscribing. And in that implied request, there's an implied promise not to report that requested email as spam as well as an implied promise not to try to break how the list works - and such behaviors as blocking posters or setting your email account not to accept mail from fellow subscribers is, essentially, an attempt to break how the list works. You don't get to make your being on the list a bunch of work for other people (such as expecting other subscribers or the admin to jump through the hoops of requesting permission to email you). I would bet that all that various implied whatnot is not exclusive to RootsWeb, but is the standard practice anywhere mailing lists are hosted. I've certainly never seen a venue where it is not. --pig