Re: Subscribing to CDBI-talk a punishable offense in the UK?

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Tony Bowden wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:59:51PM +0200, Marcus Ramberg wrote:
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>>I'm not sure about the reasoning behind this, but I have 
>>to say, I find the following legal threats absolutely monstrous. Tony, 
>>what is going on in your head?
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>Sebastian was told he was temporarily banned from the list.
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>He proceeded to re-subscribe anyway.
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>In the UK, that is indeed a criminal offence.
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Thank God I don't live in the UK then, since trying to re-subscribe to a 
mailinglist seems as harmless to me as knocking on someones door...

>I've invited him to comment on this, but if he does not do so, I shall
>have little option but to proceed with reporting this matter to the
>Police.
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>I do not believe it is suitable to discuss the rationale behind this
>publically.
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>Tony
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I do hope this mailinglist remains open for all thoughts and ideas and 
not censored to give an impression of a given set of ideas or thoughts 
being better or worse than the other.