Hello Terry,

 LL>> totally meaningless.  Especially if nobody knows who wrote
 LL>> it, and it is unsigned.

 TR> WRONG, you do it all the time.

Nobody has agreed to anything.
P4 was not, and is not, an agreement among sysops or anybody else.
It is just an opinion by a small group of sysops who never bothered
to sign their names to it.  Since it is void, it means absolutely
nothing (aside from being a museum piece).

 TR> You don't who wrote the terms and conditions nor have signed any such
 TR> document
 TR> but have legally agreed to those terms and conditions by using various
 TR> hardware or software. In some cases these terms and conditions are over a
 TR> 100
 TR> pages and you would need to be an experienced lawyer to even understand
it.

 TR> Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc are classic examples.

Terms of use as approved by the owners of those companies.
There are no terms of use in Fidonet, as nobody signed the document,
and it has never been passed/ratified by any zone.  Not that it
matters, since the document itself is void.

 TR> So in simple english (sorry I don't speak cajun) when you get a node
number
 TR> in
 TR> Fidonet you accept P4 whether you agree with it or not, just like the
above
 TR> cases.

 TR> Hint, hint, always read the small print.

Fidonet has no terms of use.

--Lee

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Often Licked, Never Beaten

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