Disclosure of Public Knowledge to Foreigners
Bill Stewart
stewarts at ix.netcom.com
Wed Apr 10 11:40:21 PDT 1996
>>Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:44:52 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: shelley thomson <sthomson at 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 at ix.netcom.com, +1-415-442-2215
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