On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:19:55 -0600, Thomas T. Veldhouse <veldy at veldy.net> wrote: > Jason Sievert wrote: > > >", for any business enterprise," > > > >I thought that since I am not running a business out of this that I > >would be ok with the TOS. > > > > > > > > That was just one item in a long list. > > "... you agree not to use the Service for operation as an Internet > service provider, a server site for ftp, telnet, rlogin, e-mail hosting, > "web hosting" or other similar applications, for any business > enterprise, or as an end-point on a non-Comcast local area network or > wide area network." The way that the sentence is constructed, it could be construed three different ways: a) a list of four forbidden items, the items being internet service provider, server site (with ftp etc. describing the phrase "server site"), business enterprise, or end-point b) a list of three forbidden items, the items being ISP, server site for a business enterprise, and end-point. c) a list of two forbidden items, similar applications (encompassing everything from "ISP" until "enterprise") and end-point. I am inclined to agree with reading C, simply because the word "as" is only used twice. With this interpretation, it seems that hosting a personal email server for non-business use would not violate the TOS. However, this is the opinion of someone who is finishing up a double-major in English and Philosophy, and NOT the opinion of a lawyer. -Patrick _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list