On Jan 25, 9:19 am, "Chuck Gould" wrote:
On Jan 25, 5:24?am, "on_the_water" wrote:

What you're really building is a commerically viable list of emails for
people interested in boating. You should disclose that you must provide
an email address and "register" to use your site.

The Privacy Policy listed on the ActiveCaptain web site is very
explicit about how an email address will be used. Like the Privacy
Policy on this site (Google Groups Privacy Notice :
http://groups.google.com/intl/en/goo...privacy3.html), we do
require that you register to make additions to the site.

Unfortunately, we live in a world with too many lawyers and we need to
protect ourselves should someone enter libelous information on our
site, as well as protect users from unauthorized access. We are not
charging for the use of this site and don't want a frivolous lawsuit.

Our goal is to create something that will be useful for all boaters.
If all participants simply offer honest, true information and opinions,
we will all benefit.