[ixian]

Originally posted by Gilby


As a webmaster, living in a country where people will sue over anything, it's good to look into any legal issues that might cost you a lot if someone were to sue you.

This is true, but this example is taking paranioa a little to far. USENET, as you yourself pointed out, is one of the few remaining free bastions of the net. It's cooperative, distributed nature pretty much rules out this kind of lawsuit.

Now, something I did think of - the way this hack works, you need your own USENET client account. It MAY violate terms of service for you to use your ISP's client account to redistribute posts for others. You can get around this by running your own nntp server, like I do. Helps me cut out the spam too.