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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.usenix
Subject: Re: Legal Research on Usenet Liability Issues
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 01:09:28 EST
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Egad!  With all due respect to the Great American Legal Tradition of
Gratuitous Polysyllabic Obfuscation, this article takes several thousand
words to tell us:

	USENET is different; there isn't any legal precedent to show just
	what potential liabilities exist.

Adding some detail:

	It has some elements of a "common carrier" and some of a
	"broadcaster"; thus it is affected by precedents for these two.

But didn't we already know that???
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.