Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-23 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 03:29:03PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: Chris Lawrence wrote: It highly inconveniences our users, however. No part of the Social Contract says protesting stupid laws is more important than our users. How does it inconvencience our users? a) None looks for mailing

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-22 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Lawrence wrote: It highly inconveniences our users, however. No part of the Social Contract says protesting stupid laws is more important than our users. How does it inconvencience our users? It also inconveniences the Debian maintainer, who has to maintain two different forks of the

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-19 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Nov 18, Joey Hess wrote: I still think mutt belongs in non-US. Why are people so opposed to putting it there? Putting a program like this in non-US just points out that the US government's laws are so brain-dead that they consider a mail reader a munition, thus raising public awareness of

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-19 Thread Seth David Schoen
Brian Ristuccia writes: On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:31:19AM -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote: Brian Ristuccia writes: Wouldn't seizing said machines violate the electronic communication privacy act or something similar by interefering with email on those machines as well? The

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 14:36:56 -0800, Joey Hess wrote: The Debian mutt package also continues to ignore the wishes of mutt's upstream authors, who do belive mutt contains crypto hooks, and who only make the version available from outside the US for that reason. Mutt's current primary

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Bruce Perens wrote: From: Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] What has changed that allows us to distribute mutt from the US to people outside of the US despite the fact that mutt is capable of integrating with strong encryption software and thereby capable of performing

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 02:00:34AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: Just to make clear I'm understanding the situation; does mutt have anything that could be interpreted as hooks to encryption, even if it doesn't have crypto code as part of the package? Or are scripts instructions on how to

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: If you think about prime numbers near the Mexican borders the US could try to say you're exporting crypto. We made the decision that a simple run this seperate program and pipe output back to me cannot reasonably be considered encryption hooks.

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:22:09AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: And frankly speaking for only myself as a citizen of the US and not as a developer here, the US government can shove their crypto regs someplace unpleasant---I refuse to comply with them on the grounds that they are an

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 09:22:09AM -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: If you think about prime numbers near the Mexican borders the US could try to say you're exporting crypto. We made the decision that a simple run this seperate program and pipe output back to me cannot reasonably be

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Seth David Schoen
Brian Ristuccia writes: Wouldn't seizing said machines violate the electronic communication privacy act or something similar by interefering with email on those machines as well? The ECPA doesn't prevent police from seizing computer hardware when they have a warrant, although it would be fun

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:31:19AM -0800, Seth David Schoen wrote: Brian Ristuccia writes: Wouldn't seizing said machines violate the electronic communication privacy act or something similar by interefering with email on those machines as well? The ECPA doesn't prevent police from

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Carter wrote: The software provides configuration file options which allow you to run any arbitrary program through standard functions used for running any and every program on the system and captures the results. This does not constitute hooks for encryption, though it arguably would

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
It's too much of a slippery slope. Put something with 3000 lines of crypto hooks in non-US. Then 300 lines. Then 30. Then anything that runs exec(). Bruce

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-16 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:14:33PM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote: P.S. Obligitory NSA flag (and why the hell is Ortega in it?): Tactical thermonuclear salsa? -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7

Re: mutt no longer in non-us?

1999-11-15 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] What has changed that allows us to distribute mutt from the US to people outside of the US despite the fact that mutt is capable of integrating with strong encryption software and thereby capable of performing strong encryption on messages it sends?