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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!edcastle!damianj
- From: damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk (Damian Jackson)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: Illegality question
- Message-ID: <28570@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 19:02:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov22.200120.2475@gacvx2.gac.edu> <1992Nov23.042305.6914@wetware.com>
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- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech) writes:
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- >censtad@nic.gac.edu enstad@gacvx1.gac.edu writes:
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- >] Is it illegal to capture and quote e-mail you've recieved from someone?
- >]
- >] Ted Frank need not respond to this posting.
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- >yes.
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- >do it immediately.
- >see, USENET (such as it is) is an anarchy. there are some people who
- >BELIEVE that they are running it. they aren't. they are right now
- >VERY USEFUL to the rat's nest of phone lines that makes up the net
- >'cuz they move a lot of data around to all the little net sites,
- >but they could be done without.
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- >so, unless someone is really likely to SUE YOU FOR EVERY PENNY YOU
- >HAVE, g'head. quote away.
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- >it's all 1s and 0s, you know.
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- 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1
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- 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
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- 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
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- Damian
- damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk
-