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Subject:    Re: DON'T DO THIS! (please!) Re: i'm sorry :)
From:       Benjamin Camp <benc () geocel ! com>
Date:       1997-01-31 8:22:31
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holy shit..  I think I heard the echos of the beginning of every cheezy 
SAMS internet book in existance.

The problem is that people assume the need for law.  They question who 
controls them instead of should they be controlled.  This mostly has to 
do with church and religion being such an institution in most countries.  
People are just subordinate creatures.  It's a shame really.

Until there is a motive for law to exist, there should certainly not be 
any justification of it and sure as hell no clarification of who's in charge.

BTW-- What in the hell does this have to do with WWW Security?

Ben Camp

On Thu, 30 Jan 1997 tpw0@gte.com wrote:

> 
> Chain letters are illegal because they often required the sender to
> include money and threatened dire consequences if the recipient did
> not participate. This made it a form of extortion, a crime under USA
> law. In this particular chain e-mail message I see neither of these
> two things so I doubt that any US law was broken.
> 
> As for the Internet, it was established initially as US Department
> of defence project called the Arpanet using a protocol developed by
> a US computer consulting firm, BBN. It was later turned over to
> the US National Science Foundation to administer as a network
> connecting institutions of higher education so it had originally
> been a decidedly American institution.  Of course it has grown far
> beyond the borders of the US and that I think is a very good thing.
> 
> Each country that now participates in the Internet I am sure tries
> to apply it's own laws to its use and I can cite intances of this in
> Great Britain and Germany. I expect Peru will do the same if it
> hasn't already.  This is not a matter of US ruling anything. I
> doubt that anyone can rule the Internet now. It is too big and too
> diverse.  
> 
> 
> > ---- Jim Harmon wrote ----
> > > #1!   Chainletters are Illegal (snailmail) in the United States.  Why
> > > should they be legal on the Internet?
> > 
> > And who said the Internet should be American-like?
> > 
> > I just guess The United States are not the rule in all things.
> > 
> > I agree with you on the basics of chainletters, though.
> > 
> > Enrique-
> > -- 
> > 
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