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1993-10-02 - Re: PGP in FIDO

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From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
To: bobi@pets.sps.mot.com
Message Hash: 82aeb23dfad89cda83094c640ec857c06c11d421c070287a4a734a65b5c48408
Message ID: <199310022336.AA02791@eff.org>
Reply To: <9310022150.AA12197@vswr.sps.mot.com>
UTC Datetime: 1993-10-02 23:38:50 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 2 Oct 93 16:38:50 PDT

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From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 93 16:38:50 PDT
To: bobi@pets.sps.mot.com
Subject: Re: PGP in FIDO
In-Reply-To: <9310022150.AA12197@vswr.sps.mot.com>
Message-ID: <199310022336.AA02791@eff.org>
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In my opinion, few if any BBSs qualify as common carriers. Common carriers
hold themselves out as accepting all goods or passengers (or, in the case
of communications, all messages) indifferently. I know of no sysop who
operates under such a policy, or who would want to. 

uunet, in contrast, probably does qualify as a common carrier.

My discussions of legal liability are not grounded in common-carrier law
(in which I'm not yet an expert) but in criminal law and tort law.


--Mike

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