Remailer Musings

[Jamie Lawrence]

At  4:26 PM 04/19/94 -0600, juola at bruno.cs.colorado.edu wrote:

>X-Authentication-Warning: bruno.cs.colorado.edu: Host localhost didn't use
>HELO protocol

Just thought I'd let you know about this heading, in
case you are debugging anything...

>Subject: Re: Remailer Musings 
>Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 16:26:24 MDT
>From: juola at bruno.cs.colorado.edu

>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.
>
>        - kitten

I wonder how this would jive with the factoid someone on this list (don't
have the original handy) found a while back about the court ruling in favor
of the right to operate under an alias in (constitutionally?) protected, at
least in terms of publishing, etc.? I remember the case happening in L.A.,
I think. Anyway, what are the odds a case could be made that my 'anonymous
identity' "fooperson" is a legal pseudonym? Stretching it some, but a
possibility, and one case where similarities with publishing can work in
favor of privacy.

jamie
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