Greetings to all!

After Bill Adam's post of the Indiana Bottle
Digger's club, I contacted the web page sys-admin
and notified them that one of their pages may
endorse illegal activities, in violation of the
companies "terms of service."  The company didn't
agree, but it was worth a try.  I have attached
the original messages below.
Cheers,
Tim

Original message follows:
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Member Name:
http://members.tripod.com/~Bottledigger/index.html

E-mail: [log in to unmask]
New Email:
DOB:


Please examine the web page by your member at:
http://members.tripod.com/~Bottledigger/index.html

You might wish to read the guest book on the page.
 A
number of
professionals have commented that the hobby
promoted in
this page
frequently involves breaking state and federal
laws.
This is a serious
issue for all media services.  You may soon
hear that PBS
(WGBH Boston) has encumbered legal liability
surrounding
the well known
program _The Antiques Roadshow_ where several show

patrons were
broadcast, admitting that they had dug up
artifacts on
archaeological
sites, such as national battlefields, that are
protected
by local,
state, federal, and international laws and
regulations.
The problem for
PBS is that the show producers permitted the
artifacts to
be appraised,
and then broadcast the segments (and thus, it
could be
argued, condoned
the actions without undertaking due diligence).

Please feel free to contact me for any further
information.
Tim Scarlett, MA, Ph.D. Candidate
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From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Report Abuse at Tripod
(KMM3452710C0KM)
Date: Tue, Mar 14, 2000, 4:36 PM




Thank you for your concern but the account in
question
was found not to
be in violation of our Terms of Service.
Consequently,
this account
will remain on our servers.  It might be that our
staff
overlooked the
content to which you objected,  so please feel
free to
write back in
greater detail using the subject header "Second
Notice."

I wanted to clarify that the creator of the page
is in no
way directly
associated with Tripod, Angelfire,  or the Lycos
Network.
These are
independent companies that provide a package of
content
and services.
One of our membership services is our Homepage
Studio
that allow members
to build their own homepages.  Neither Tripod,
Lycos, nor
Angelfire
exercise any initial editorial control over what
our
members place on
their pages nor their other Internet related
activities.

We do, to the best of our ability, delete pages
that
contain material
that are in violation of our Terms of Service. If
people
like yourself
bring potentially objectionable pages to our
attention,
we certainly
evaluate those pages as quickly as possible and
act
according to our
Terms of Service.

I hope you will find that our prompt response
addresses
your concerns.
If you have any further questions or comments,
please
don't hesitate to
contact us.

Thank you for the information.