Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?
Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]>
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--On 2004-1-30 4:53 AM +0000 James Craig Burley <[email protected]> wrote: > Validating and/or tracing human identity is *not* an email issue any > more than it is an http-retrieval, ftp-upload, instant-messaging, > etc. issue. It's a fairly general issue on the Internet; in some > areas, *viewing* certain materials that you mentioned is a criminal > offense, so it needn't be emailed, though it could be uploaded to an > ftp site and still be a criminal offense, of course. As a somewhat offside corollary, using photons to view child porn doesn't make the physics community accessories to a crime. A messaging transport cannot dictate, restrict, or encourage morals any more than sight, speech, or the printed word can. --lyndon