Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:44:52 -0700 (PDT) From: shelley thomson <sthomson@netcom.com> The church of scientology plans to subpoena the records of every anonymous remailer in the USA. ... On the basis of events today, Ward believes the church will issue subpoenas for the records of every anonymous remailer in the USA. If these records are delivered to the church, our First Amendment rights go with them.
They can have all the records for the pamphlet remailer from the relevant time periods - it doesn't keep any. I may have to start some sort of short-term log-keeping to deal with spam problems (for now, I've shut it down, because of a particularly hostile kind of spam that would require grepping the body of each outgoing message to stop, and I haven't written code for that.) If I do start logging, I'll probably also insist that all incoming traffic be encrypted. And there are certainly ECPA issues involved in a subpoena, as well as major First-Amendment issues, reporter shield law issues (though I gather those vary by state), and such. Good luck! # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, stewarts@ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215