Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/15

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Subject: [Leica] Geocities Warning Correction
From: "Gary Klein" <gklein@excel.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:45:18 -0500

I don't know if you know, but geocities received incredible heat on their
overbearing terms of service that many people pulled their pages and many
community leaders quit geocities.  I am one who pulled my pages at the time
of the merger with geocities and yahoo!   I didn't want geocities-yahoo! to
have perpetual ownership of my images.  Anyway they DID change their
mind...only after many many complaints.

I personally think that what happened is the lawyers wrote a really
restrictive TOS to see how that would fly...(thinking no one would notice I
am sure). Lo and behold they got buried in their emails to change the policy
etc.

Read section 7 at this link for details:

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/geoterms.html


gck

(I had to have an excuse anyway to think up of a new web page for myself
anyway, so my new stuff has yet to be posted)