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From: mpr@mb2c.UUCP (Mark Reina)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Computer Bulletin Board Confiscated
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 15:36:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 15:36:06 1984
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Recently, Gary Oliver asked a question of whether the phone company was
also a member of the conspiracy.  Gary considered the BBS to be a store
of information to be transmitted later to a third party.  Gary also won-
dered if there was only a difference of degree of storage and latency.

Under the Model Penal Code, a conspirator is one who, with another person,
agrees to engage in illegal conduct (whether it be unlawful means or an
unlawful result).  It would take a far stretch of the imagination to
think that the phone company actually agreed to do an illegal act here.