Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Musing on Constitutionality Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 03:30:57 GMT References: <11503@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <82778@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <11521@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1990Sep3.182712.2260@world.std.com> <11548@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU's message of 4 Sep 90 17:31:37 GMT From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) >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? True. Friends who left the USSR before glasnost tell me that regularly scheduled publications with identifiable staffs and open subscriptions were quite common there and really not all that different than ones we have here in many ways, unoffensive, broad-appeal, pap that was easy to agree with. What was heavily licensed and controlled was photocopying, precisely to stop what you describe, informal (i.e. uncontrollable) newsletters passed amongst circles of friends. Food for thought? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | {xylogics,uunet}!world!bzs | bzs@world.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD