From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:59:32 +0800
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Subject: Re: Australia's New South Wales tries net-censorship
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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 9-Apr-96 Re: Australia's New South
W.. by Robert Rosenberg@panix.c 
> If you want a real world analogy, there are cases where overeager USPS
> Inspectors who want to "get" someone have sent them porno as a Return
> Receipt Requested Item and then raided before the person had had a chance
> to open the package. That is possession under the Law.


That is also one of the times the Feds are permitted to allow child porn
out of their possession -- when they send it to someone via USPS and are
waiting to spring on the unfortunate perp as he or she is opening it.

This from conversations with former Federal prosecutors.

-Declan