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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: Fri, 22-Aug-86 19:36:57 EDT
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In article <1032@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> 
>	"CHAPTER 121 -- STORED WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND
>			TRANSACTIONAL RECORDS ACCESS
>
>	"Section 2702. Disclosure of contents
>		"(a) PROHIBITIONS.-- Except as provided in subsection (b)--
>			"(1) a person or entity providing an electronic
>	communication service to the public shall not knowingly divulge to any
>	person or entity the contents of a communication while in electronic
>	storage by that service;
>
>I think it should be possible to set up and run an unreliable email
>service in the US, with the customers knowing full well that it is
>unreliable.  (By "unreliable" I mean that not only might the message
>not get there, it might go somewhere else.)  The bill removes this
>choice, which seems to be the choice we in the Usenet have currently
>made.

   It's too bad you didn't quote a little further.  But I suppose you have
to be selective when you are trying to make a point that is not borne out
by the actual text.

		"(b) EXCEPTIONS.--  A person or entity may divulge the
	contents of a communication--
			"(3) with the lawful consent of the originator or an
	addressee or intended recipient of such communication, or the
	subscriber in the case of remote computing service;

   This seems to indicate quite clearly that the originator can give consent
for the contents of his message to be disclosed.  For an individual Usenet
host, the "originator" and "addressee" are either users on that machine or
other Usenet hosts (or possibly machines on other nets).  So all you need
is a release from your mail feeds, stating that they give their "lawful
consent" for the unintentional disclosure of the contents of their communi-
cations.

   -- David desJardins