From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 06:29:28 +0800
To: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Subject: Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers
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At 15:14 1/1/96, Mike McNally wrote:
>Lucky Green writes:
> > But how many of them [ IP providers ] will be willing to forward
> > certain newsgroups if doing so carries a mandatory 10 year prison
> > term? Hint: count the number of  narcotics dealers that advertize
> > in your local yellow pages.
>
>But an IP provider doesn't have to know that it's "forwarding" *any*
>newsgroups; all it has to know is that IP packets are moving between
>my PC and the outside world.  It doesn't have any way of knowing what
>those packets contain and doesn't want to.

Some site in physical space has to host the nntpd, the ftpd, and the httpd.
That site will be subject to search, seizure, and arrest and conviction of
owner.

If you don't have a host, there won't be any packets to forward.

-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.