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From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Prodigy ...
Message-ID: <1991May14.015000.27184@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 14 May 91 01:50:00 GMT
References: <30316@dime.cs.umass.edu>
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL
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In article <30316@dime.cs.umass.edu> HELLER@cs.umass.edu (From the screen of Deneva...) writes:
>With many non-computer techies getting home computers, often with modems and 
>with the existence of FidoNet, much of what you are looking for already exists.
>
>It would be nice if things were nicely bundled, and some sort of E-Mail common
>carriers were available in the same way as the telephone, the USPS, and UPS/FedEx/etc.

	No.  The main problem here is that liability does not lie with the
poster/mailer.  If I mailed someone a cc # through a BBS, not only I would
be liable, but the owner of the BBS.  (As the RIPCO case has shown.)  We
need liability to rest solely on the poster/mailer.
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The Ravings of the Insane Maniac Sameer Parekh -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM