Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:27:44 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
   WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Yah learn something new every day
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 1/8/2007 11:57 AM, samlubell at verizon.net wrote:
> >From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
> >Date: 2007/01/08 Mon AM 09:39:32 CST
> >To: "'Mike B.'" <omni at omniphile.com>, WSFA members
> <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>,
>         "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
> >Subject: [WSFA] Re: Yah learn something new every day
>
> >Mike,
> >       I understood that the ownership was vested in WSFA rather than an
> >individual.  However, I am not positive on that point.
>
>The WSFA-Forum list on yahoo is an official WSFA publication and as
>such is run by the secretary with administration currently delegated
>to the WSFA webmasters.

I've just read over Yahoo's current TOS, and it appears that they've
removed the prohibition on "corporate" use and replaced it with
"commercial"...which is what I figured their original intent was
anyway.  There is still one bit that might cause WSFA some
problems...and asking one of our lawyer type folks about it might be
reasonable.  This bit:

-----
22. NO THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARIES

You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this TOS,
there shall be no third-party beneficiaries to this agreement.
-----

If the owner of the list is Ernest, or any other member, and the list
is an "official publication" of WSFA, then WSFA, as a third party,
would be benefiting from the agreement between the owner and
Yahoo...or so it seems to me.  This is a different setup than, say,
Ernest creating a list of his own, and letting folks he knows, such
as the membership of WSFA, post messages to his list.  I'm not sure
what it takes for a corporate entity, such as WSFA, to become the
list owner of a Yahoo group, or who within WSFA would have to sign
off on it.  I'd guess that the President could do so, but what other
officers would have authority to act in WSFA's name for this I don't
know, nor do I know whether the Yahoo group registration information
lists an individual as owner, or WSFA as owner.

For anyone who wants the full story, this is the link to Yahoo's TOS:

http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html

-- Mike B.
--
If it took a constitutional amendment to prohibit alcohol, by what
authority does Congress prohibit other drugs?