From: tallpaul@pipeline.com (tallpaul)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 00:30:47 +0800
To: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Subject: Re: Australia's New South Wales tries net-censorship
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On Apr 09, 1996 01:47:39, '"Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>'
wrote: 
 
 
>At 9:01 4/8/96, Mike Duvos wrote: 
> 
>>I'd be interested to know if the courts have ever had a case in 
>>which a person has been declared to have been in "possession" of 
>>illegal material merely by virtue of its momentary presence in 
>>their cache, screen buffer, or usenet spool. 
> 
>If you want a real world analogy, there are cases where overeager USPS 
>Inspectors who want to "get" someone have sent them porno as a Return 
>Receipt Requested Item and then raided before the person had had a chance 
>to open the package. That is possession under the Law. 
> 
 
I think this is more "conspiracy" not "possession" under the law. 
 
Perhaps an attorney on the list could comment. 
 
But I am interested to read more about such "cases." Could R.A. Rosenberg
post the case cites? 
 
--tallpaul