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Re: Councilman/Usenet porn case...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Black Unicorn)
Fri Mar 29 09:53:39 1996

Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:16:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>
To: "Vincent S. Gunville" <vingun@rgalex.com>
Cc: cohen@chuma.cas.usf.edu, cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>,
        Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>,
        Kathleen Ellis <kelli@zeus.towson.edu>
In-Reply-To: <315AB3E4.41B6@rgalex.com>

On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Vincent S. Gunville wrote:

> Here is an example of what anonymous remailers can 
> do.......

[...]

You need to start reading the material you use to support your positons:
Especially this paragraph.

> >    But here's a reality check. The Finnish remailer could not have been
> >    used, since anon.penet.fi no longer transmits binary image files.
> >    Jerry Russell, who runs Florida Online and who looked into the case,
> >    says he figures the whole thing was a relatively simple prank called a
> >    sendmail spoof, in which the prankster posts a message with a phony
> >    return address. He says the Willowick police never produced a copy of
> >    the posting for him so that he could unravel the tangle for them.
> >    Indeed, when the policeman called, "he didn't really understand what
> >    he was trying to tell me," says Russell. "The average Joe Blow police
> >    detective doesn't know flip about the Internet."



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