Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!go From: go@orstcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Computer Bulletin Board Confiscated Message-ID: <40800001@orstcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Jun-84 02:58:00 EDT Article-I.D.: orstcs.40800001 Posted: Sat Jun 23 02:58:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 00:27:10 EDT References: <806@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:sdcsvax:-80600:orstcs:40800001:000:510 Nf-From: orstcs!go Jun 6 22:58:00 1984 [ just in case ] If one considers the BBS to be a store of information to be transmitted later to a third party or parties, then isn't the Phone Company also a party to the conspiracy? I realize this stretches things a bit, but it would seem to me that the operator of the BBS was providing a service (free and uncontrolled, though it may be) that is similar to that offered by the Phone Company: a means to transmit information. The difference seems to be the degree of storage and latency. Gary Oliver