An alternative to remailer shutdowns (fwd)

Forwarded message:

> Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 15:02:08 -0700
> From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
> Subject: An alternative to remailer shutdowns

> was apparently sent through my remailer.  According to 18 USC 875(c),
> "Whoever transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing
> any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of
> another, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more
> than five years, or both."  I may not be able to continue operating
> either of my remailers (alumni.caltech.edu and shell.portal.com) for
> much longer due to this kind of abuse.

There should be a section in there dealing with 'knowingly'. If not then we
should immediately bring charges against any and all newspapers who have
ever printer a ransom letter, or perhaps even the Unibomber Manifesto since
there is clear evidence of 'threat to injure the person of another'.


                                                   Jim Choate

On Mon, 20 May 1996, Jim Choate wrote:
> Forwarded message:
> > Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 15:02:08 -0700
> > From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
> > Subject: An alternative to remailer shutdowns
> > was apparently sent through my remailer.  According to 18 USC 875(c),
> > "Whoever transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing
> > any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of
> > another, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more
> > than five years, or both."  I may not be able to continue operating
> > either of my remailers (alumni.caltech.edu and shell.portal.com) for
> > much longer due to this kind of abuse.
> 
> There should be a section in there dealing with 'knowingly'. If not then we
> should immediately bring charges against any and all newspapers who have
> ever printer a ransom letter, or perhaps even the Unibomber Manifesto since
> there is clear evidence of 'threat to injure the person of another'.

	And the postoffice for transmitting both his bombs, and his
manifesto, and the phone company for all of the times they have
transmitted threats interstate &etc.

Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@crash.suba.com

On Tue, 21 May 1996, snow wrote:

> On Mon, 20 May 1996, Jim Choate wrote:
> > Forwarded message:
> > > Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 15:02:08 -0700
> > > From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
> > > Subject: An alternative to remailer shutdowns
> > > was apparently sent through my remailer.  According to 18 USC 875(c),
> > > "Whoever transmits in interstate commerce any communication containing


I don't have time to do it just now.   Look in the definitions section
under "transmit" and I bet you will find language that suggests it is the
original transmitter, not innocent intermediaries, which are liable under
the statute.

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