Valencia King Nelson said...
|In the past 6 months I have had several disruptive/diagreeable
| people to complain about being placed on the "ignored" list.
|The complaint is that their right to free speech is being violasted
|followed up with a threat "to sue".
Do you have an intro to the list mailiing that goes to each
new user? Does it clearly spell out the rules and regulations,
and the actions to be taken when they are violated? Did you
follow these? Did you save all documentation (probably just
email in these cases)?
There are two threats I see as not improbable:
1) They could go ahead and have a lawyer contact
you, if only to scare you, and hey - if they
get some money, so much the better, but they
might get back on the list, right?
2) They might go after the university to (a) try
to force you to let them on (or better yet,
get you ousted, so that whoever took over (them?)
would be most likely to let them have their way),
or (b) because they know the university has deep
pockets.
I don't know how likely these are (I would guess
it's a low risk). I do know that taking all the
steps I asked about earlier are a big help in
fending off even the least probability of a lawsuit.
-Miles,
not a lwayer, but have had to deal with the same
issues in other situations.
meo@rru.com
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