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From: sob@soma.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.politics,net.legal
Subject: Re: Towards making hosts and their admin free from a criminal offence
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Date: Sun, 22-Jun-86 17:43:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: soma.935
Posted: Sun Jun 22 17:43:40 1986
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Reply-To: sob@soma.UUCP (Stan Barber)
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Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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Speaking as a long time BBS system operator (SOBBS Test Mode, since 1980),
I have followed the issue of Public BBS operations for some time. To my
knowledge the only BBS's that have been successfully shutdown are those
that the phone companys have had shut down due to "phreaking" information.
In every case that I am aware of, the BBS sysop did not discourage such
activity.


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Stan	        uucp:{shell,rice,drillsys}!soma!sob    Opinions expressed
Olan		ARPA:sob@rice.arpa                     here are ONLY mine &
Barber	        CIS:71565,623   BBS:(713)660-9252      noone else's.