From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 01:11:21 +0800
To: thad@hammerhead.com (Thaddeus J. Beier)
Subject: Re: lp ?
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Thaddeus J. Beier writes:
> So, if this person was sending cryptographics codes from Switzerland
> to Israel, the code would have been imported to the US, then exported
> by UUNET.  They can't do that, can they?  Probably nobody would prosecute,
> but it might be something to threaten UUNET with if one of their Northern
> Virginia neighbors ever wanted something the couldn't get otherwise.

It isn't clear that telecoms treaties don't implicitly make this legal
in spite of the export regulations.

Perry