Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbdkc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!cbdkc1!fran From: fran@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Frank Webb 3587) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.micro Subject: Re: Computer Bulletin Boards Must Be Confiscated! Message-ID: <531@cbdkc1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 22:18:45 EDT Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.531 Posted: Sun Jun 3 22:18:45 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 20:02:34 EDT References: <171@ssc-vax.UUCP>, <357@teldata.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Columbus Lines: 17C'mon gang, we are forgetting one of the more important facts about the case. The BB in question maintained an UNDERGROUND board, where this kind of posting (credit card nos, etc.) may be presumed to have been either welcomed, or at least tolerated. The posting in question had been in the board for a month. These two facts were probably the reasons for the confiscation. The normal, well run BB would not be guilty of "aiding and abetting". The "Pirates Cove" sleaze operations are hereby put on notice. Whether the confiscation will stick, the courts will determine. I will scream like blue blazes if a well managed (read responsible) sysop gets stuck. I will not waste a lot of sympathy on this case. Frank Webb