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Re: iStar memo: don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups

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From: Lawrence Lee
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 00:00
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Karl Pollak (kpollak@portal.ca) wrote:
: Almost all servers will automatically delete any e-mail as soon as it
: has been picked up by the recipient.  So the likelihood of any
: appreciate volume of contrband stuff sitting there for the cops to
: find is extremely low

Well what if you can keep a copy of your e-mail on the server for as long 
as you like. 

: That is a decision every person has to make for himself. But it would
: raise a question "how do you know it is there, unless you have
: downloaded it?"

Well how do cops get search warrants on drug operations, by tasting the 
product?

: Show me any other ISP in Canada that carry the newsgroups that were
: mentioned in this thread.  I seriously doubt you will find one.

Why would iStar carry them in the first place then?

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From: lalee@vcn.bc.ca (Lawrence Lee)
Subject: Re: iStar memo:  don't tell customers list of banned newsgroups
Date: 1996/07/11
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