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From: mkapor@eff.org (Mitch Kapor)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Public Access Sites -- concerns, problems, and precedents
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.011619.10202@eff.org>
Date: 18 Jun 91 01:16:19 GMT
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Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
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I hope Mike Godwin will post a more complete response.

Feel free to call him at the EFF.  The number is 617 864-0665.  While there
are no certainties, it is not my sense there is any organized witch-hunt in
progress which might affect operators of public access bulletin boards.  So
relax.

One of the actions of the past year which makes it less likely that there
will be indiscriminate and over-reaching raids is the lawsuit filed by
Steve Jackson Games seeking damages resulting from the illegal seizures of
their equipment.

I wouldn't take Townson too seriously when he says more indictments are
imminent.  False alarms are commonplace.

Mitch Kapor, EFF
mkapor@eff.org