There is a difference. If you are going to deny, knowledge that your were served, yet you download the message and choose not to read it, then that is your fault, not the court's. Just as if someone serves you papers in person and you choose not to read them. They indeed were delivered to you.
If some moron spammer sends you kiddie porn with a subject of Hey... and you open it see what it is and delete it, it's kinda like walking down the street and some moron pervert handing you a kiddie porn picture, you look to see what he handed you, see what it is and throw it away.
If you download the message, then you recieved the summons. If you don't read it and/or don't open it, its your problem. Its just like if the papers were handed to you and you don't even look at them and throw them in the trash. You have been served.
In the case of a hotmail account, it may be more difficult to prove that the account is truly even yours.
Its also conceivable that the sender could look at your mailserver's logs to see if you downloaded the message, but that doesn't necessarily prove that you have read it.
IANAL, but wouldn't downloading the message be enough proof of delivery. Just because you don't read the summons doesn't excuse you.
If an attorney servers me with papers, they have been delivered whether I read them or not.
I have a hard enough time finding keyboards that I like and trying to type on a table top sounds like a bad idea. I'm pretty picky about key travel (the distance that a key moves when pressed). I really like the small key travel of laptops and I searched around for weeks before finding a desktop keyboard that had an acceptable key travel. Even if you're not anal about key travel like I am, it's nice to have some sense that your keys are in the right place by having something move. I imagine it would be pretty easy to get lost trying to type on a table with no feedback from the table.
At my office, our servers have redundant power supplies. I would recommend Slashdot getting servers with redundant power supplies also if they do not already have them. See, redundant power supplies are actually the good kind of redundant, unlike the redundant stories that are published to your web site. You see redundant power supplies serve a purpose, and redundant stories just piss people off.
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There is a difference. If you are going to deny, knowledge that your were served, yet you download the message and choose not to read it, then that is your fault, not the court's. Just as if someone serves you papers in person and you choose not to read them. They indeed were delivered to you.
If some moron spammer sends you kiddie porn with a subject of Hey... and you open it see what it is and delete it, it's kinda like walking down the street and some moron pervert handing you a kiddie porn picture, you look to see what he handed you, see what it is and throw it away.
If you download the message, then you recieved the summons. If you don't read it and/or don't open it, its your problem. Its just like if the papers were handed to you and you don't even look at them and throw them in the trash. You have been served.
In the case of a hotmail account, it may be more difficult to prove that the account is truly even yours.
Check the mail server logs, they won't lie... was the message downloaded? Then it was delivered... Who cares if it's read.
Its also conceivable that the sender could look at your mailserver's logs to see if you downloaded the message, but that doesn't necessarily prove that you have read it.
IANAL, but wouldn't downloading the message be enough proof of delivery. Just because you don't read the summons doesn't excuse you.
If an attorney servers me with papers, they have been delivered whether I read them or not.
would using lynx not get you around that?
That's not the answer to my worries... Indiana uses barcodes not magnetic strips.
If you go out to the bar, then the terrorists have already won.
computers; to do anything.
Could I cook potatos in my computer?
I have a hard enough time finding keyboards that I like and trying to type on a table top sounds like a bad idea. I'm pretty picky about key travel (the distance that a key moves when pressed). I really like the small key travel of laptops and I searched around for weeks before finding a desktop keyboard that had an acceptable key travel. Even if you're not anal about key travel like I am, it's nice to have some sense that your keys are in the right place by having something move. I imagine it would be pretty easy to get lost trying to type on a table with no feedback from the table.
At my office, our servers have redundant power supplies. I would recommend Slashdot getting servers with redundant power supplies also if they do not already have them. See, redundant power supplies are actually the good kind of redundant, unlike the redundant stories that are published to your web site. You see redundant power supplies serve a purpose, and redundant stories just piss people off.
Please consider this in the future.