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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Musing on Constitutionality
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Date: 4 Sep 90 17:31:37 GMT
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Geez, I feel dumb!  I subscribe to bother OtherRealms and the Risks
Digest, and I would have no quibble with calling either a full-fledged
publication. 

The original point I was trying to make is that there is a significant
difference between a regularly-scheduled publication with identifiable
staff and open subscriptions, and someone xeroxing off a letter in
their basement that they mail off to a circle of friends.  Whether or
not such a difference is found in case law or not, I dunno.  Would one
of our lawyer/readers care to comment?

Comparing Phrack to the NY Times is not a convincing or appropriate
analogy, nor is comparing this newsgroup to NPR's All Things
Considered. :-)
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf