ISPs are nothing but common carriers, companies that provide the technical environment. This remark causes a slight uproar in the CoS-benches behind me. One of the Swedish CoS-members scribbles a note which is handed to Magnusson, who receives it and nods happily. They whisper with Cowboy Boots, who seems relieved and starts leafing through a file. Regarding Magnusson's dissecting of Zenon's May-2 posting, Zenon explains that you can forge every header.
Headers provide no proof, only logs do.
And headers often seem convincing, even when they obviously are manipulated. For instance, Zenon reminds RTC, recently there were two postings on a.r.s. purportedly made by their own lawyer Helena Kobrin. Magnusson's aide has traded places with the young Swedish Scientology member who sat behind me. Mikael Nystr m, the computer expert, who is going to be heard about the net. The net is basically a lot of computer networks linked together, he explains, and they provide for the Web, mail and news.