🚀 go-pugleaf

alchemy@interlog.com (Morton Goldmacher) wrote:

>>However, iSTAR's stated position is that it is the the *newsgroups*
>>which are illegal.  That is, despite all logic, they appear to be insisting
>>that the wrapper is illegal, not just any potentially illegal content.

>The advice provided to iSTAR was most likely that they, by carrying
>the discontinued newsgroups, were aiding and abetting the publication
>of unlawful material.  Aiding and abetting the commision of an offense
>is no different in law to commiting the offense.

Since you are a lawyer:
If I send you a letter with the text "alt.binaries.warez" on the
front, and a computer disk in, will the post office commit a crime by 

a) letting it enter their post box?
b) keeping it inside the post office building before delivering it?
c) delivering it to you, unopened?

 - Sten Thaning



--
             First they came for the hackers.
      But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
                     so I didn't speak up.
            Then they came for the pornographers.
 But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
                     so I didn't speak up.
         Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
    But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
                     so I didn't speak up.
          Then they came for the encryption users.
     But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
                     so I didn't speak up.
                   Then they came for me.
      And by that time there was no one left to speak up.

                        -- Unknown --