From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 18:50:48 +0800
To: "John A. Perry" <perry@alpha.jpunix.com>
Subject: Re: Remailer Operator Liability?
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On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, John A. Perry wrote:

> 	Now that the CDA decision has been made, I was wondering how this
> would affect the liability status of the various remailer operators? In
> the past several remailers have opted to discontinue service due to
> legal/political pressure. Will this CDA decision help to decrease remailer
> operator liability?

	I seem to get the idea that the problem is more in the realm of
civil suits than problems with "direct" legality. I say direct, because
IANAL and I don't know the correct way to phrase it. 

	Saying it another way, it currently isn't the FBI that is the
problem, but rather the CO$.

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@crash.suba.com