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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown)
Newsgroups: soc.women,news.admin
Subject: Re: I ain't afraid of no Batwoman
Message-ID: <1257@geac.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 09:05:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: geac.1257
Posted: Thu Aug 27 09:05:13 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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In article <1248@geac.UUCP> john@geac.UUCP (John Henshaw) writes:
>That it was cowardly, I certainly agree. That it was "terrorism" I don't.
>Mr. [coward] Nobody has certainly pointed out how to "silence" or
>restrict postings. This is akin to people suggesting various ways to
>kill or maim others. Are *they* guilty or are the people who actually
>*do* the dirty deed guilty? In our society we punish those who actually
>*do* bad things.
  Technical point: if someone attempts to convince someone to kill or
maim others (as opposed to saying he'd like to kill someone), he is
subject to a charge of "procuring the commission of a crime".  It is a
judgment call by a real Judge as to whether he was *committing* a crime...

  On a different sub-subject, if that message passed through the ARPAnet
it can probably be tracked: SMTP had that capability designed in to its
logging facilities (well, usually).  UUCP is a bit weaker, but not all
that much.

 --dave (ex-ARPAnaut) collier-brown
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