From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 16:03:43 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: An alternative to remailer shutdowns (fwd)
Message-ID: <199605202328.SAA14914@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 15:02:08 -0700
> From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
> Subject: An alternative to remailer shutdowns

> was apparently sent through my remailer.  According to 18 USC 875(c),
> "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."  I may not be able to continue operating
> either of my remailers (alumni.caltech.edu and shell.portal.com) for
> much longer due to this kind of abuse.

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'.


                                                   Jim Choate