From: Carl Johnson <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 03:22:47 -0800 (PST)
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: Reflections on the Bernstein ruling
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jim bell wrote:
> 
> However, if being "on the Internet" is automatically presumed to be an
> export, why can't we program using remote-control editors which might,
> someday, be available on the Internet? 

  If I wanted to export an unexportable program, I would put it on my
machine
as 'happyface.zip', and then make sure that god-and-everybody spread the
word
that it was available under that title.
  I don't believe there is a prosecutor alive that can convince a jury
of twelve
mostly non-technically oriented people that someone should be put in
prison for
not knowing the content of every single non-text file on their machine.