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From: elw@netexa.UUCP (E. L. Wiles)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
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Date: Mon, 5-May-86 20:10:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 20:10:28 1986
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> >                 The argument that "the material was encrypted so he
> > didn't know he was being used for something illicit" has not proven
> > to be a convincing one to various courts.
> 
>                     In fact, the legal ramifications are so severe that
> it would seem inadvisable to let *anyone* send mail through your site...
> because if anybody ever sends anything illicit through your site, and you
> could be held liable because they did, then you're taking on a terrible
> responsibility in letting anyone use your site to transport mail.
> 
> Or could that be ... um ... no, surely you didn't mean that... :-)
> -- 
> E. Roskos

I'd like to see someone try to sue the U.S. Post Office for one of the
multitude of explosive devices sent through their service.  It should
be interesting to see the sparks fly!  :-)
-- 
				E. L. Wiles @ NetExpress Comm. Inc.
				Vienna, Virginia.

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