From: alex <cp@proust.suba.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 10:58:39 PDT
To: mclow@coyote.csusm.edu (Marshall Clow)
Subject: Re: Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995
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>     IANAL, but it seems to me that if I EMAIL a copy of PGP to, say, Tim
> May, that I have just "distributed computer software .... to a computer
> network ...accessible to foreign nationals ..." even though it was
> "private" e-mail.

It seems to me that this bill is so broad as to be unworkable, and that
could work in our favor.  I haven't read the full text, and I'm not a
lawyer, but my reading of the excerpts posted here suggest that even stuff
that's been *approved* for export by NSA could be prohibited. 

What would be the status of stuff like NIS+ under this bill?  The 
Netscape commerce server?