From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 12:20:40 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Fed appellate judge remarks re anonymity, free speech on the (fwd)
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> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:40:19 -0700
> From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
> Subject: Fed appellate judge remarks re anonymity, free speech on the
>   net
> 
> The article quotes Kozinski as saying "I have a severe problem with
> anonymous E-mailers . . . You don't have a right to walk up to somebody's
> door and knock with a bag over your head." The article says Kozinski likened
> anonymous E-mail to menacing someone.

I guess the esteemed judge doesn't believe in Halloween....

Does this also mean that he supports the complete elimination of junk mail
that has no return address on it?

> Kozinski is considered relatively conservative and relatively libertarian,
> as 9th Circuit judges go. 

Conservative AND Libertarian? Talk about a non-sequitar.


                                                       Jim Choate
                                                       ravage@ssz.com