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From: stephan@kontron.UUCP (Stephan W. Wendl)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Congress is now debating the future of Usenet / FIDO / etc
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Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 12:55:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 19 12:55:07 1986
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> This Bill, S.2757, the "Electronic Communications Privacy Act",
> appears to put legal liability on Usenet hosts which forward mail or
> news for other hosts, and could alter or destroy the current structure
> of Usenet (and/or Stargate).  It was written by people who DON'T UNDERSTAND
> EMAIL and networking, and was lobbied for by the commercial email companies

So when do we start sueing the telephon companies to be liable as medium 
for forwarding messages supporting criminal activities?????