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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
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Subject: Re: Congress is now debating the future of Usenet
Message-ID: <1665@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 04:23:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 22 04:23:28 1986
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Reply-To: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
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In article <189@husc6.HARVARD.EDU> dudek@harvard.UUCP (Glen Dudek) writes:
>
>I am not a lawyer, but after wading through the pertinent sections of
>S.2575 ... , I am not overly concerned.  
>...
>
>	    "(B) A person or entity providing electronic communication
>    service to the public may divulge the contents of any such
>    communication--
>...
>	    "(iv) which were inadvertently obtained by the service
>    provider and which appear to pertain to the commission of a crime, if
>    such divulgence is made to a law enforcement agency.".
>
>These do not seem to be unreasonable restrictions.  So, what is hiding
>between the lines of the legal mumbo-jumbo that I am missing?  Please
>reference the appropriate sections so I can try to make sense of it again.
>
>	Glen Dudek
>	postmaster@harvard.harvard.edu

That last paragraph means (in my opinion, also of a non-lawyer) that
if you INADVERTENTLY peek at some mail passing through your node of
the net AND it appears to pertain to a crime THEN you can feel free
to divulge otherwise PRIVATE MAIL!  Lets see you do that with US Snail:
I'm the mailroom clerk and happen to open your letter and ...

((that is just one of the problems))

-- Glenn Tenney 
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