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From: biep@klipper.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Try-out trial?
Message-ID: <717@klipper.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Mon, 13-Apr-87 04:28:26 EST
Article-I.D.: klipper.717
Posted: Mon Apr 13 04:28:26 1987
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Reply-To: biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: court
Summary: Aren't judges for deciding whether it's allowed or not?

In the Netherlands, and I cannot believe it's different in the States,
if it is unclear whether something is legal or not, one can set up a
try-out. After having notified the court, and having had permission,
one does the thing, and the police gets you. Then the court judges you,
and if you are fined you get a symbolic fine of 1 guilder. Once this has
happened, whatever the outcome, there is legal precedence and everybody
can stop guessing. I suppose such a try-out trial is in place in the case
of Stargate being or not being a common carrier. Just let Stargate send
out everything it gets from e.g. Lauren Weinstein, claiming it is a common
carrier, and let Lauren send a message saying "Lauren is crazy"; let Lauren
then bring Stargate to court (I suppose both Stargate and Lauren are poor
enough they can get pro Deo justice), and let the case be cleared up once
and for all.
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						Biep.  (biep@cs.vu.nl via mcvax)
	To be the question or not to be the question, that is.