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At 08:27 PM 4/11/2005 -0400, Stuart Levine wrote:

>I understand the general position of brokerage houses with respect
>to communications emanating from the firm. However, weblogs, for
>the most part, represent communications to the firm. Thus, there
>should be no basis for limiting access.
>
>On 11 Apr 2005 at 16:35, Greg Broiles wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Apr 11, 2005 2:41 PM, Stuart Levine <sltax@...> wrote:
> > > > Some of you may find my weblog posting here: > >
> > http://taxbiz.blogspot.com/2005/04/writers-block.html > > or here: > >
> > http://snipurl.com/dyaw > > to be of interest. It deals with a
> > discovery that I made last Friday, > namely that access to my weblog
> > was blocked via a stock > brokerage internet connection.
> >
> > I tried to respond via your weblog, but got an error when I tried to
> > post.
> >
> > The gist of my comment was that this isn't too surprising to me, given
> > the regulatory environment within which brokers operate. SEC and
> > broker/dealer regulation are not my field, but it's my impression that
> > there are rules (created by either SEC or NASD or both) that require
> > brokers to retain copies of *every* written communication between
> > brokers and [potential] customers, as well as baroque rules regarding
> > the content of the communications. In that light, claming down on
> > blogs doesn't strike me as out of character.
> >
> > See, for example, <http://registeredrep.com/mag/finance_youve_mail/>
> > (circa 2000) discussing whether or not it's a good idea for brokers to
> > be allowed to use E-mail, and discussing that a regulatory ruling
> > allowing same was only 2 years old at that time.
> >
> > --
> > Greg Broiles, JD, EA
> > gbroiles@... (Lists only. Not for confidential communications.)
> > Law Office of Gregory A. Broiles San Jose, CA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked
> > there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal
> > applications:
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> > http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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>********************************************
>Stuart Levine
>Fisher & Winner, LLP
>315 North Charles Street
>Baltimore, Maryland 21201
>Telephone: 410.385.2000
>Telecopier: 443.927.7075
>Cellphone: 410.802.5817
>Weblog: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com
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