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From: md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Donald Drown)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Evidence (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality)
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Date: 9 Oct 90 22:23:08 GMT
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I haven't looked foward a couple days yet, but following this thread...

 jimp@sequent.UUCP (James Pilcher)
wrote:
>While I agree with you that holding sysop responsible for everything would
>be a disaster, you should note that a phone line is SUPPOSED to be private,
>whereas a net is assumed to be public. Bulletin boards have been misused in 
>all kinds of ways; should a sysop who runs a board for child molesters
>be free of all responsibility? This has happened, here in Portland, by
>the way.

In your definition then, if I were to start an alt.child-molester on the
net, then it would be perfectly legal.  Damn, I could talk to child
molesters all over the world with no problem, instead of just in the
Portland area.

I think there is a lot more to this question then phone lines being
private.  I am using a phone line to connect to my schools computer to
post a message to this board, is this private?

-Matt