ISPs not liable for hostile code sent between users

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, todd glassey wrote:

Vadim - the instant someone sues a Provider for sexual harassment from their spam epidemic you will start to see things change. The reason that No-Sane provider will block these ports or services is because they have been listening to their Network Admins too long, and in fact the problem is that they are not sane providers. What they are, and this is pretty much true

However, the US courts and US law don't agree with you. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981800.html In what legal experts describe as a first, a federal appeals court has upheld a ruling that America Online and other Internet service providers are not liable for "hostile code" sent between subscribers.