From: "David J. Bianco" <bianco@itribe.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 06:50:38 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
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On Feb 6, 16:44, Adam Shostack sent the following to the NSA's mail archives:
> Subject: Re: The OCAF's White Paper on Internet Pornography
|| zinc wrote:
|| 
|| | i'm wondering if i set up a cron job to request a copy every 5 or 10
|| | minutes and just send it to /dev/nul, could i get in more trouble than
|| | say, someone just telling me to cut it out?
|| 
|| I think that they would try to press charges under the precedent that
|| a guys modem auto-dialing Jerry Falwell's number was forced to make
|| restitution.   (Forget the reference, sorry.)
|| 
|| The important difference is that they probably are not being billed on
|| a per transaction basis, whereas 800 numbers are billed per call.
|| Would they sue?  Can you sell a jury on the essential difference being
|| that they were not billed per copy mailed?  I'd expect that they'd
|| react with a 'cut it out' message first.
|| 

And then they would, of course, use the inflated "hit" count as proof positive
that the Internet citizenry is on their side!  

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