[47730] in Cypherpunks
Re: You want to read MY e-mail?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Pugh)
Tue Jan 23 02:57:41 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 02:48:15 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Alan Pugh <ampugh@mci.newscorp.com>
=snip=
>A bill by Sen. Paul Weissmann, R-Louisville, to make e-mail as privileged as
>telephone conversations was killed in a Senate committee.
>
>A somewhat stronger bill still rests in the House.
=snip=
>Jim Carpenter, press secretary for Romer, said his office was "looking at all
>the issues, all the options."
>
>Duke said he has always complied with requests for public records, but said the
>request for e- mail messages goes too far.
>
>"I'm disturbed by it," Duke said.
>
>(John Sanko writes for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.)
>
> OK, if _I_ can't read your e-mail Mr. Legislator, why should you
>be able to read _mine_?
a good question. perhaps _now_ they'll get serious about recognising email
as eqivalent to postal mail. this would be an excellent way of pushing this
elsewhere. when _their_ ox is gored, they'll scream like stuck pigs.
one interesting aspect of this would be whether regular mail is considered a
public record under the law as far as legislooters mail goes. if so, then
she should get it.
amp
