Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.audio,net.news Subject: Re: Unscrambling subscription channels Message-ID: <929@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Jul-84 12:18:02 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.929 Posted: Sun Jul 29 12:18:02 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 00:11:05 EDT References: <769@abnjh.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 10 Can we please have some agreement that use of the net for illegal purposes is unwise, unethical, and endangers the continued existence of USENET? Tell me -- suppose you're caught using answers you get from the net, and the cable company decides to sue ATT? How many ATT sites would be allowed to stay on the net after that? Remember that case in California, where the apparently- innocent owner of a bulletin board system had his machine impounded, because of illegal information posted to it by others. To my knowledge, no one has ever presented any evidence that he even knew of what was going on. Never- theless, he was held responsible. I see no reason why the same thing would not apply to USENET.