At 11:47 PM 10/14/95 -0700, anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:

Has anyone examined the legislative history associated with this statute?

I would be surprised if they were singling out anonymous remailers. They may have had other concerns regarding phone abuse, e.g., long distance fraud.

Then again, I could be full of it...

Doesn't necessarily matter what the legislative history was. When some prosecutor trying to make a name for himself hooks onto this language to prosecute an anonymous remailer or other perceived miscreant, nobody will remember what the intent was. The casebooks are full of perversions of original intent. Jon Goldberg