"Michael H. Riddle" <riddle@hoss.unl.edu> (08/05/90)
Patrick: I've noted in recent discussions some references to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) that lead me to believe that not all persons who ought to have read the Act. I note that the archives have a copy of an early version, but not necessarily the final, and that since the Act involved changes and additions to various parts of the U.S. Code, that the form in the archives is not as useful as it might be. I'm taking the liberty of enclosing what I believe to be the relevant portions of the U.S. Code; to be safe, one should read these in conjunction with the archives' file ecpa.1986 to insure they have everything, but this is reasonably complete. As before, I expect this will need to go straight to the archives since it's rather lengthy. Mike [Moderator's Note: 96K bytes lengthy! I posted it in the Telecom Archives this morning right next to the ecpa.1986 file where it is available for anyone interested. And I do recommend a look at it. Telecom Archives can be accessed via anonymous ftp at lcs.mit.edu. After logging in, 'cd telecom-archives'. Mike, I thank you on behalf of all readers for taking the trouble to enter this file. PT]