From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 18:11:01 +0800
To: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Subject: Re: Australia's New South Wales tries net-censorship
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At 9:01 4/8/96, Mike Duvos wrote:

>I'd be interested to know if the courts have ever had a case in
>which a person has been declared to have been in "possession" of
>illegal material merely by virtue of its momentary presence in
>their cache, screen buffer, or usenet spool.

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.