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From: sheldon@circadia.UUCP (Scott Bertilson)
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Subject: Re: STARGATE (READ THIS!)
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 15:54:10 EST
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  After listening to the talk by Susan Nycum at USENIX on USENET legal issues,
I was left wondering if her talk didn't imply that exercising control (any
control?) over what is broadcast wouldn't cause USENET to be viewed by the
courts as a broadcaster (and thus be entirely responsible for everything
that was "broadcast").  This led me to think that broadcasting moderated
newsgroups might imply control and legalities would cause the situation
to be reversed making it easier to have wide-open newsgroups than moderated
ones over StarGate.
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Scott (sheldon) Bertilson   ...inhp4!circadia!sheldon