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Re: Q
> --> Note: Forwarded (from: DFW)
> Originally from Bryny (1:124/4109.0)
> Original dated: Oct 23 '93, 18:36
>
> The EPCA applies to Common Carriers. Thus it applies to Compuserve, MCI Mail,
> etc. It does not apply to bulletin boards unless they issue mail contracts.
>
>
> ----8<----
>
> what are the actual legal requirements for claiming status as a Common
> Carrier?? (other than being in the USA ...)
>
> signed written agreements?
Just about everything said about common carriers in these postings is
wrong. ECPA is not limited to common carriers, for example. And it *does*
apply to BBSs.
Finally, one doesn't claim common carrier status, absent a legislative or
regulatory grant of that status.
For a brief period, thanks to some partial research I'd done in the
subject, I was under the impression that there is such a thing as a
"common-law common carrier," at least potentially. I now know that this is
not the case.
--Mike