From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ea02452876a15e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: Colin James III giving humans a bad name (was Re: Norman Cohen giving IBM a bad name) Date: 1996/03/21 Message-ID: <4ir1ud$cg8@goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143486318 references: <4id031$cf9@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <4ik3j7$cl6@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <314d98bf.562645731@news.dimensional.com> <4inf5n$klb@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <314f6cf8.682571966@news.dimensional.com> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On page 22 of the February 1996 issue of Scientific American, there is a box "More Rules of the Road", concerning American laws that censor the Net. Here is something interesting: And if your e-mail, Usenet posting or World Wide Web page might be read by someone in Connecticut, be aware that it is a felony there to transmit text that contains threats with the intent to harass, annoy or alarm. ... It sounds as though anyone posting "say that one more time and I sue" on the net may be committing a felony in Connecticut if the article travels through that state, and if Paul Wallich, who wrote that snippet in SciAm, has his facts right. Perhaps someone with ready access to the laws of the state of Connecticut might like to verify this for us. Me, I'm going to be _very_ careful not to threaten anyone from now on, not even in jest, not even with smileys all over. -- The election is over, and Australia lost; the idjits elected _politicians_! Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.