Re: PGP in FIDO

[Al Billings <mimir@u.washington.edu>]

On Sat, 2 Oct 1993, Marc Horowitz wrote:

> >> Anyway, the ECPA is basically irrelevant in the BBS world, as ....
> 
> I'm truly amazed.  Mike Godwin, who is a lawyer who *specializes* in
> this sort of thing, has rebuffed this statement several times, and
> given his phone number for interested BBS sysops to call him.   And
> yet, people continue to spew disbelief.
> 
> Of course, without real case law, Mike's opinion is still just that,
> but when some BBS sysop gets nailed by the ECPA, I'm gonna laugh.

 Hasn't happened yet and the ECPA was passed in what? 1986? I really doubt
if a BBS sysop is going to get nailed over someone's view of e-mail on
their system.