Re: Usenet forgery being investigated

Frank Hendrix wrote:
>
> John Sharman <jayshar_at_norvic.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >What exactly did you have in mind for the charge?
>
> The police suggest in the UK either Computer Misuse Act - penalty up
> to 5 years imprisonment. Alternatively, Race Relations Act - I'm not
> sure of maximum penalty.
>
> BT advises that under the Telecommunications Act it is an offence to
> transmit messages via the public network which are menacing,
> threatening or intimidating.
>
> In other countries, whatever local appropriate law. Someone advises me
> that in the USA the accused could be extradited to the UK.

Sorry. No can do if the accused is an American citizen.

If this country can host a loudmouth guest like Jon Livesey, then surely just about anything one of us says in this newsgroup goes, as far as I'm concerned.

Jim Collier Received on Thu Apr 25 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST