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From: cccalle0@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Catherine Allen)
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Subject: Re: Communications Decency Act may corrupt protocols
Date: 18 Apr 1996 04:45:09 GMT
Organization: University of Queensland
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jahlstro@cisco.com (John Ahlstrom) writes:

>Please write to the President (president@whitehouse.gov) asking
>that he order the DoJ to oppose rather than support CDA.

This is a world-wide net and a world-wide problem.
Your president and your laws do not have jurisdiction over most of it.

A better solution is needed.