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Mar. 5th, 2005 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmazeOn my very old home machine, I run ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chooblog, which loosely chronicles the escapades of my model railroad. I'm running this using Blosxom, which has the useful attributes of (a) being actually free and (b) being able to post by editing local files. There are some plug-in Perl modules for this, including a "writeback" module that allows people to post comments.
The problem with this, of course, is comment spam. I'm sorry, but online poker games have nothing to do with N-scale model railroading. (And I'm glad I frobbed it to not display the submitted URL, though for different reasons.) Poking around doesn't suggest an obvious (technical) solution to the problem; I can probably tweak the Perl script to write inbound comments to separate files and then manually copy over the actual relevant file fragments if there are non-spammy comments, but this reeks of a lack of automation.
But there's an actual social question here. If I add to my comment-submission page a prominent link to a comment policy, and the comment policy says something along the lines of "I reserve the right to delete comments not relevant to the subject material of this blog, and if you post clearly irrelevant ads, you agree to pay $500 per incident", is that enforceable? If I can find an actual company behind these online-poker sites, can I extract some money from them? Would I run afoul of rules like "no commercial use of MITnet"?
chooblog, which loosely chronicles the escapades of my model railroad. I'm running this using Blosxom, which has the useful attributes of (a) being actually free and (b) being able to post by editing local files. There are some plug-in Perl modules for this, including a "writeback" module that allows people to post comments.The problem with this, of course, is comment spam. I'm sorry, but online poker games have nothing to do with N-scale model railroading. (And I'm glad I frobbed it to not display the submitted URL, though for different reasons.) Poking around doesn't suggest an obvious (technical) solution to the problem; I can probably tweak the Perl script to write inbound comments to separate files and then manually copy over the actual relevant file fragments if there are non-spammy comments, but this reeks of a lack of automation.
But there's an actual social question here. If I add to my comment-submission page a prominent link to a comment policy, and the comment policy says something along the lines of "I reserve the right to delete comments not relevant to the subject material of this blog, and if you post clearly irrelevant ads, you agree to pay $500 per incident", is that enforceable? If I can find an actual company behind these online-poker sites, can I extract some money from them? Would I run afoul of rules like "no commercial use of MITnet"?
enforceable?
Date: 2005-03-07 04:13 pm (UTC)Legally actionable? Probably.
Could you get a lawyer to represent you? Probably not.
Could you represent yourself in small claims court? Probably.
Would the judge just throw you out? No clue.
But anyways, when you say "enforceable", I suspect for the definitions you intend, the answer is No. Or at least Not Really.