From: Laurent Demailly <dl@hplyot.obspm.fr>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 12:30:10 PDT
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Subject: Re: Linking = Showing = Transferring?
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Rich Salz writes:
 > Inline images are not references -- they are part of the page being
 > retrieved.  
I don't agree...
 > >	<img src="http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/obscura/rsa.gif">
 > >So that the image is *imported* by the *viewer*, and not supplied by
 > >www.obscura.
indeed
 > Inlined images are just a convenient way of chunking.  The image is imported
 > by the viewer because the server, as part of the base document, told it
 > to do so.  You might be able to fool an ignorant court, but it still
 > doesn't change the fact that Lance has a document that in the natural
 > course of operation of the Web, exports crypto.
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[...]
Oh ? exports from Uk to Uk for instance  ??
how could it export anything without any packet crossing a "border"
even virtual ?

Maybe it violates some rules about spreading information, knowledge
of where to find 'offending' materials, but this is certainly not
breaking any export rules... IMO

dl

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