From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 13:08:42 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Linking = Showing = Transferring?
Message-ID: <199509202008.NAA29083@desiree.teleport.com>
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At 09:18 PM 9/20/95 +0200, you wrote:

>> Browser in the US, text in US, crypto gif imported from UK, both legal.
>> 
>> Browser outside US, text in US, crypto gif imported from UK, both legal.
>> 
>> See a flaw in that?
>
>Not directly, but... what if for some strange reason the image is routed
>through US gateways on its way from the UK to, for example, Germany?
>I mean, The Net (tm) is a strange beast, and you can rarely tell which way
>the message flows... you can't even DO anything about it.

It can get pretty weird.  A friend did a traceroute on a site across town.
It was relayed half-way across the world to get there.  (Through Poland or
some such absurdity.)  

It seems that no matter what you do, you are breaking the law...
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