From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 18:51:38 +0800
To: ravage@ssz.com
Subject: Re:  An alternative to remailer shutdowns (fwd)
Message-ID: <199605210333.UAA04650@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
> > From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
> > "Whoever transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing
> > any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of
> > another, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more
> > than five years, or both."
> 
> There should be a section in there dealing with 'knowingly'. If not then we
> should immediately bring charges against any and all newspapers who have
> ever printer a ransom letter, or perhaps even the Unibomber Manifesto since
> there is clear evidence of 'threat to injure the person of another'.

I think Jim is right about the knowledge requirement, which although not
stated explicitly in the statute, has been held by the courts to be an
essential element.  My point in quoting is more to show an example of the
kinds of clearly illegal postings which operators have to deal with.

Hal