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yvonne <ycooke@enter.net.au> wrote in message news:374CD85A.476AD9A5@enter.net.au...
> Rod Speed wrote
>> Daniel Grimwood <reaper@crystal.uwa.edu.au> wrote
>>> In aus.org.efa Langdon Alger <noname@nospam.com> wrote:

>>>> What's the real big deal?

>>> Send an explicit email to a group of your mates about your dirty weekend
>>> with your girlfriend.  The government computer will see offensive words in
>>> your email sent to an email list, so someone in Canberra will have to read
>>> your email to see if it is offensive.  Do you want others reading your email?

>> The recently passed legislation doesnt provide for that.

> ABC online news: "*Obscene e-mail may become illegal*

Doesnt make it gospel any time soon.

http://search.aph.gov.au/search/ParlInfo.ASP?action=view&item=8&resultsID=n7Sed
has this little item

'the framework will not apply to private or restricted distribution communications
such as e-mail; however, current provisions of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) in relation to offensive or
harassing use of a telecommunications service will apply in this context'

> The Federal Government has revealed some private emails could be
> illegal under new Internet censorship laws if they include obscene material.

What matters is what is in the legislation.

> The new legislation, passed yesterday, empowers the
> Australian Broadcasting Authority to order the removal
> or blocking of online material which it deems offensive.

Nothing to do with email.

> Communications Minister Richard Alston said some
> private e-mails were personal transactions which
> would not lend themselves to prying by third parties.

They got that bit right.

> But he says some e-mails, for example those sent to a group,
> would not be regarded as normal e-mails under the new legislation
> and therefore could be illegal." (copied from ABC site)

Nothing like what Dan was saying about snooping on all email.

> Another issue is a case where one member of a mailing list thought
> your e-mail was obscene, and formalised a complaint, while the rest
> of the group thought your e-mail was merely irreverent wit or satire.

Precisely the same situation applys when some stupid wowser starts
frothing at the mouth about what they have seen or heard in a movie
or on free to air TV. Doesnt get it removed automatically any time soon.