From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 95 17:58:13 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Senate Bill 974?
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David Neal writes:
> Haven't seen it discussed here, but the August 28, 1995 issue of Lan
> Times covers Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-IOWA) Senate Bill 974.

Actually, we considered S.974 (the Anti-Electronic Racketeering Act of 1995)
here in excruciating detail a couple of months ago. Check the archives from
e.g. July.

At last report, the bill had been referred to committee. If/when it ever
emerges from subcommittee, there's cause for concern. No mention of it has
been made in the Congressional Record since Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona joined
as a cosponsor in late July. It doesn't currently appear on the unofficial
list of "hot bills" on Thomas -- "bills that have received or are receiving 
floor action and/or debate in the United States Congress" 
(http://thomas.loc.gov/home/hot-bill.html)  Hopefully it has died in
committee, as more pressing matters have taken precedence.

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>