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On 12/06/13 16:53, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:40 PM, bad apple wrote: >> Any half competent person can immediately >> implement all the mangling, QOS, proxying, caching, rate limiting, site >> filtering and even blocking of abusive customers that you'll ever need, > But that would only cover the technical side of things. I'd say there > are many practical (as well as ethical and legal) issues with offering > Internet as well. > > Martijn. > I daresay you're right - that's not the sort of area I have to get involved in luckily, I'm purely technical. To be fair, it is the most important bit: legal and ethical considerations are completely moot unless you actually have the cold, hard technical facilities established in the first place. The technical implementation will also inform the ethical/legal aspects as well - I'm thinking particularly the logging, or lack thereof, and blocking of inappropriate sites (if applicable). Come to think of it, would proving a customers age be an issue as well - I guess that you would be entering at least briefly into a contract with any internet users on your commercially provided wifi, and aren't children below the age of 16 (?) technically unable to agree to such a thing without parental intervention? Of course it's unlikely that a <16 year old would be at your hotel without their parents in the first place but perhaps if the parents went out for an evening and a 15 year old stayed behind in her room surfing on an iPad? Hmm, what a headache. Glad I'm a sysadmin and not a lawyer... Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq