kitten writes:

On the other hand, part of the rules of being a common carrier are that one is *required* to cooperate with appropriate authorities to prevent this sort of abuse and to catch said abusers if/when it happens. I suspect that Mr. Templeton's lawyer could make a case that by setting up a remailer where one cannot "trace calls," one is violating the requirements of being a common carrier, and thus is responsible for content.

The PO delivers mail whether or not it has a return address, let alone whether it has a _correct_ return address, so I suspect that Mr. Templeton's lawyer would have to be very creative indeed to pass that analogy by anyone who isn't asleep at the wheel. I think his thinly veiled warnings re: remailer operator legal liability are an attempt to intimidate, as it can get expensive to defend yourself even from a very weak claim ....... just ask Phil Zimmerman. Jeff trestrab@gvsu.edu