P-list Lawyer

Paul Mackin mackin at allware.com
Tue Mar 18 07:18:07 CST 1997



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From: 	doktor at primenet.com[SMTP:doktor at primenet.com]

* At this time, an adults-only warning on the P-list is not legally
warranted.  However, if the CDA passes constitional muster, the list might
then be well advised to post such a warning, since good-faith efforts to
deter minors from accessing indecent materials is a defense under the CDA.

Since yesterday I sort of half seriously suggested such a label, I should clarify that I was thinking not so much of a legal cover (not being a lawyer, heh, heh) but rather a strategy to frustrate possible attempts by agents provacateurs to pose as minors on the p-list. (Wasn't trying to keep anybody out either, but that's another thread.)

Thanks to Jimmy and Bob O. for their legal imputs.

Paranoically,
				P.



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