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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
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Subject: Re: Congress is now debating the future of Usenet
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Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 16:56:43 EDT
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In article <189@husc6.HARVARD.EDU> dudek@harvard.UUCP (Glen Dudek) writes:
>  This is the primary section on privacy and disclosure:
>
>	    "(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this
>    paragraph, a person or entity providing an electronic communication
>    service to the public shall not willfully divulge the contents of any
>    communication (other than one to such person or entity, or an agent
>    thereof) while in transmission on that service to any person or entity
>    other than an addressee or intended recipient of such communication or
>    an agent of such addressee or intended recipient.
>
>	    "(B) A person or entity providing electronic communication
>    service to the public may divulge the contents of any such
>    communication--
>
>	    "(ii) with the lawful consent of the originator or any
>    addressee or intended recipient of such communication;

   If *this* is what worries you, there is a very simple solution.
Have your mail feeds (the originators of mail through your machine)
sign consent forms stating their understanding that complete non-
disclosure of Usenet mail is not guaranteed.  Presto, "lawful consent"!

   I find it hard to believe that this provision is what is stirring
up all the fuss.

   -- David desJardins