----- Original Message ----- From: "James B. Davis" < file share vs tape as gift : Forget file sharing. Try newsgroups. but try them quickly! our world is rapidly moving to a place where people who fear something might be viewed as 'bad' (or not PC), choose bring about it's end *just in case*. it's a nasty little fear system, powered by such wonders as retrospective legislation - you know, what you are doing today is legal but tomorrow when we'll ban it - we'll also deem your past formerly legal activity as illegal and you'll be prosecuted. Our third biggest ISP in Oz has removed ALL binary newsgroups from their servers just in case the government or some big corporation one day decides that the ISP might be culpable by hosting anything illegal on the newservers. So, no sharing of photo's or anything else anymore there! k if mobile phones had been around in the 50's they'd have had cigarette lighters built into them!
