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- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!eff-gate!usenet
- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: [news.admin.policy] Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <9208140316.AA04199@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: daemon@eff.org
- Sender: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org
- Organization: EFF mail-news gateway
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:16:32 GMT
- Approved: usenet@eff.org
- Lines: 23
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- Newsgroups: news.admin.policy
- From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
- Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.221944.12665@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:19:44 GMT
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- stantbat@iastate.edu (John S Sinnott) writes:
- >An interesting question was brought up: Is it defensible to allow access to
- >a newsgroup that distributes illegal material...
- >I would ask the powers that be to prove someone has broken the law.
-
- I agree wholeheartedly. It is not clear, from the context of USENET
- (which has no real legal context in terms of legality, and is not
- specifically under any one government's body of law) whether anything
- posted here is illegal.
-
- --
- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
- dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov ...usc!elroy!dxh
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- He who has self-conceit in his head -
- Do not imagine that he will ever hear the truth.
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