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Re: topological "closeness" (RE: Web o' Wonder)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Mon May 13 22:50:03 1996

Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 22:46:07 -0400
To: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
Cc: Mike Trest <trest@atmnet.net>, Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>,
        nanog@merit.edu, matthew@nic.scruz.net

At 03:04 PM 5/13/96 -0700, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

>As soon as some nice legislation gets passed to protect me, the ISP, when
>I run a cache, I'll put one in and help solve the bandwidth problem. Saying
>"the network will break without cache servers" isn't a valid defense to
>charges of posession of illegal and/or copyrighted material.
>
>-matthew kaufman
> matthew@scruz.net

Yep, its much cheaper for me to buy another ds-3 or so than to worry about
legal reprecussssions from proxying.  This is something that has to be fixed.

Justin Newton			* You have to change just to stay 
Internet Architect		*      caught up.
Erol's Internet Services	*


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