Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!execu!dewey From: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: U. S. Supreme Court Opinions On-Line - Can We Gateway? Message-ID: <283@execu.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 88 15:01:37 GMT References: <25634@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <794@vsi.UUCP> Reply-To: dewey@execu.UUCP (Dewey Henize) Distribution: na Organization: Execucom Systems Corp., Austin, Texas Lines: 33 In article <794@vsi.UUCP> sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes: > >Sounds like a good idea for the net software, but I'd think this would >definitely lend itself to another distribution (law. perhaps?) as I >should think most of the net wouldn't want to carry the LARGE volume >of traffic this would generate. That and being of little interest >to the majority of the net. > >-- >Michael Sullivan {uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan >V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA sullivan@vsi.com >"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of eldeberries! Pbbbt!" Another possibility would be archiving. I don't know of anyone here that that would get real benefit from the decisions as they come out, although that could change and it might be a bit different for some sites. It would seem though that having the actual stuff put up and available somewhere so that references could be made MIGHT have some impact on a few of the more legalistic flames. At least, if someone claimed a Supreme Court decision in support (or opposition, I suppose - stranger things have happened! :-) of a particular side of an argument, there would be a way to get the definitive quote! Just a thought. Probably take a prohibitively large amount of disk, lawyers are about the only group that can talk more than me and yet say less... [Feel free to use the last sentence. Heh] Dewey Henize -- =============================================================================== | execu!dewey Dewey Henize @ Execucom Systems Corp 512/346-3008 | | You don't think my employer APPROVES of these ideas, do you?? Sheesh! | ===============================================================================