From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 23:55:26 +0800
To: ampugh@mci.newscorp.com>
Subject: Re: "German service cuts Net access" (to Santa Cruz)
Message-ID: <199601291519.HAA21441@mailx.best.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


At 09:43 PM 1/28/96 MET, Olmur wrote:
>The difference is, that the German government was not ordering this
>block.


German prosecutors are sending intimidating messages to various ISPs.

Some ISPs are more easily intimidated than others.   

The messages fall short of saying "You will be prosecuted if 
you do not obey", but they do say "You may be prosecuted if you
do not obey."
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
              				|  
We have the right to defend ourselves	|   http://www.jim.com/jamesd/
and our property, because of the kind	|  
of animals that we are. True law	|   James A. Donald
derives from this right, not from the	|  
arbitrary power of the state.		|   jamesd@echeque.com