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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Foothead, Foothead, on the net/Who's the biggest liar yet?
Message-ID: <1076@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 21:10:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 21:10:07 1987
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In article <493@gouldsd.UUCP> mjranum@gouldsd.UUCP (Marcus J Ranum) writes:
>What you are talking about here is a violation of Federal Law. Electronic
>mail is protected under the same protection as the US Mail, despite the speed
>difference !  It is legal for root to read a user's files, delete them, trash
>an account, or even edit a user's files, but electronic mail is protected.
>Note that net postings are not, since they are not addressed to an individual.
>If you think I am talking through my hat about this, ask your lawyer.

You are talking through your hat, and obviously have never discussed
this with a lawyer.  Just because we call it "electronic mail"
doesn't mean the gov't thinks it's mail.  Please don't spread
misinformation on the net when you obviously have no idea what you're
talking about.

>Don't you know it's bad juju to read someone's stuff ?

Yes, it is.  But UUCP mail has never been officially ruled to be "mail"
according to the law.
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