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From: mbrown@tonic.osf.org (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: auto-dialers illegal in CA?
Message-ID: <14504@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
Date: 8 Oct 90 14:20:58 GMT
References: <194@netsys.NETSYS.COM>
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In article <194@netsys.NETSYS.COM>, niu.bitnet!TK0JUT2@netsys.NETSYS.COM
writes:
|> Keep in mind
|> that, in California, if you send a friend an autodialer (whether across the
|> lines or simply hand them a disk)--or if you even possess one--under
the 1990
|> statute your could be prosecuted for a felony. The point is that definitions

Owning an auto-dialer program is illegal in California?
A *FELONY*!?!??

Please, tell me more...

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