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Subject: Re: Binaries in Usenet (was: News...) 
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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:10:55 -0700
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> So, given that there is a need to get illegal stuff off USENET
> servers and given that USENET posters can easily circumvent a rmgroup
> by crossposting to other bogus groups, what can an ISP do? IMHO, the
> solution is to zap all binaries.

Here in Canada, and in many other countries, _text descriptions_ of
obscene acts are covered by obscenity laws. It doesn't matter if the
action depicted is real or just the product of a twisted imagination. I
understand the United States has recently passed a similar law. Also,
here in Canada, people have been charged with _making_ child porn, just
because computers by their very nature make copies of data.

IANAL, but I don't think zapping binaries in newsgroups provides a
great deal of legal protection. You have to deal with newsgroups,
email, Squid cache, etc...