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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.stargate,news.misc,comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Stargate
Message-ID: <8150@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 15:49:15 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 15:49:15 1987
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>   In the referenced article, the Stargate folk go on at great
> length about their views of the situation here.
>   On at least two points I find them to be misinformed...
>   The second point is the question of liability in the case of
> a customer who is offended by an article.  I've always felt that
> the lawyers have their heads stuck firmly up their asses on this
> point: anything that you must deliberately make an effort to
> receive, you have no claim to being "harmed" by...

And it would be really nice if Earth-to-orbit transport were available at
$10/lb, which is theoretically (and probably practically) possible.
But we don't have it.  Nor do we have your preferred limitations on legal
liability.  It is, unfortunately, necessary to live in the real world, in
which Earth-to-orbit transport is very expensive and legal liability is
very broad.  Can you explain why the Stargate people are "misinformed" in
not being familiar with a notion of legal liability which bears no relation
to current reality?
-- 
"There is only one spacefaring        Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
nation on Earth today, comrade."   {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry