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Date:      Tue, 11 May 1999 17:12:51 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, grog@lemis.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Europe says yes to spam
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905111711410.28217-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <199905111957.MAA16922@usr04.primenet.com>

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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > There is also another law being proposed by the EU which would make
> > the local caching of Web pages by ISP's effectively illegal (something
> > related to copyright IIRC).
> 
> You're not copying it, you are storing and forwarding it.
> 
> I would really laugh if somone got a cease-and-desist order against
> British Telecom for storing voice mail without the permission of
> the caller, using such a law... not that I'm suggesting someone do
> this if the morons actually pass the law.

Or the postal service for "storing and forwarding" your snail mail.


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