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1993-10-03 - Re: PGP in FIDO

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From: Al Billings <mimir@u.washington.edu>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Message Hash: 950380847af102bfef6157d8f21be1ec5d13becb393570ccad841a6a34489866
Message ID: <Pine.3.05z.9310030102.A11917-a100000@carson.u.washington.edu>
Reply To: <9310022001.AA11355@snorkelwacker.MIT.EDU>
UTC Datetime: 1993-10-03 08:04:29 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 3 Oct 93 01:04:29 PDT

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From: Al Billings <mimir@u.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 93 01:04:29 PDT
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: PGP in FIDO
In-Reply-To: <9310022001.AA11355@snorkelwacker.MIT.EDU>
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1993, Marc Horowitz wrote:

> >> Anyway, the ECPA is basically irrelevant in the BBS world, as ....
> 
> I'm truly amazed.  Mike Godwin, who is a lawyer who *specializes* in
> this sort of thing, has rebuffed this statement several times, and
> given his phone number for interested BBS sysops to call him.   And
> yet, people continue to spew disbelief.
> 
> Of course, without real case law, Mike's opinion is still just that,
> but when some BBS sysop gets nailed by the ECPA, I'm gonna laugh.

 Hasn't happened yet and the ECPA was passed in what? 1986? I really doubt
if a BBS sysop is going to get nailed over someone's view of e-mail on
their system.

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