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Re: *Tesla list survey form is ready*
From: D.C. Cox[SMTP:DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 1997 3:14 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: *Tesla list survey form is ready*
to: Mike
>From a legal standpoint you are right -- it isn't much different. The key
point is that on the Internet you are posting a thought -- similar to
putting something up on a bulletin board. If you actively mail or deliver
this information, or publish in the form of a book, then your legal
responsibilities increase dramatically. There are several legal cases
pending now regarding information received over the Internet -- it will be
interesting to see how they play out.
DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> To: 'Tesla List' <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: *Tesla list survey form is ready*
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 1997 7:17 AM
>
>
> From: Mike Harrison[SMTP:wwl-at-netcomuk.co.uk]
> Reply To: wwl-at-netcomuk.co.uk
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 1997 6:26 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: *Tesla list survey form is ready*
>
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 03:30:07 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >
> >From: Adam[SMTP:absmith-at-tiac-dot-net]
> >Sent: Saturday, November 29, 1997 10:41 PM
> >To: Tesla List
> >Subject: Re: *Tesla list survey form is ready*
> >
> >
> >>Example, a young coil builder uses your
> >>information from the database to construct a coil and somehow gets
ahold of
> >>a pole transformer to power the unit. He gets fried. His parents get
paid
> >>by their insurance company for the "loss". Now, guess who the
insurance
> >>company sues for a cool million $$$ or more?
> >....
> >>I think you ideas represent great goodwill and will help many young
coil
> >>builders but would strongly advise against distributing or compiling
any
> >>data that uses more than a 60 ma. source of power. It could come back
to
> >>haunt you.
>
> But how is publishing a list of results any different to the contents
> of many of the posts on this list, and of the various TC websites ?
> Surely a results list is less 'risky' than the often more detailed
> stuff available elsewhere?
>
>
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