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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Congress is now debating the future of Usenet
Message-ID: <1705@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 02:25:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1705
Posted: Tue Sep  2 02:25:01 1986
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Reply-To: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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In article <1978@ecsvax.UUCP> hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes:
>> > ...
>> >>	    "(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
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  This is a crucial point - just because you allow certain people and sites
>to use your machine for this purpose does not mean that you are offering 
>such services "to the public".
>
>  Our position is that we restrict these services to our account holders
>(students, faculty, staff) and to sites with which we have arrangements,
>and that this does not constitute offering service "to the public."
>
I believe that this is exactly why this should be of concern to net.mail.
If you forward e-mail for other uucp sites, this could (would?) be considered
services "to the public" since you really don't restrict what e-mail you
forward.
-- Glenn