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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: how to verify an article's submitter
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 16:35:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 21 16:35:38 1985
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Most radio and TV talk shows use a 5 to 10 second delay so that
they can "kill" a caller before something nasty gets on the air.
The few that don't have a "live" kill button handy and depend on their
ability to drop a caller in real time if they start to drift
into the forbidden zone.  While the delay is safest from their
standpoint, it appears that either technique meets the requirement
of exercising "reasonable care" that such material is not
broadcast.  If a station just let them ramble on, however, then
they'd have real problems on their hands.

The courts have not established the legal validity of public 
key cryptosystems for identification purposes.  Given this
fact, all "reasonable care" techniques must be based on
existing (and court approved) identification techniques (signed
statements, contracts, etc.)

--Lauren--