Reporting Little Blue Men

Wed Jan 21 20:13:47 UTC 1998

On Wed, Jan 21, 1998 at 12:09:06PM -0800, ^Faust^ wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > Ok, but some case I just saw mentioned somewhere drew a line between
> > people looking at things, and programs processing them automatically,
> > placing the former in the category of editorial control, but not the
> > latter.  Don't remember the context, think it was Usenet.  Presumably,
> > if that legal theory held, it could be applied to spaminators, as well.
> 
> It was the data tap that the government did on the Argentinian cracker lastyear.
> Their program output data only when the keywords were present and
> even then it was only n characters before and after the keyword.

No, as Dean correctly pointed out to me just now, it was the
Intellectual Property rights vs. web caching discussion right here,
last week.

Cheers,
-- jra
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