Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material

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From: Christopher Davis
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:48

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Carl> == Carl M. Kadie <kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu> 

 Carl> In my opinion, it is ok to exclude a newsgroup if it is illegal.
 Carl> I think this position is supported by library policies. They say
 Carl> that 1) laws should be obeyed 2) legal advice should obtained
 Carl> from compete sources 3) restrictive laws should be challenged
 Carl> (with legal means) 4) and that challenged material should be
 Carl> given due process.

I might note that there is probably *also* a proportion of copyrighted
material in the alt.binaries.pictures.misc group (and that the whole
purpose of the alt.binaries.* hierarchy is to allow the *WHOLE THING* to
be easily blocked for reasons of disk space, transfer bandwidth, and/or
copyright problems).
--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
            ``Ed Gruberman, you fail to grasp Ti Kwan Leep.
            Approach me that you might see.'' -- The Master

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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Groups used to distribute illegal material
In-Reply-To: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu's message of Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:04:58 GMT
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