Christopher Baker wrote in a message to Trev Roydhouse:
 CB> U.S. law forbids the routine inspection of electronic
 CB> communications not addressed to you. inspection is permitted
 CB> for technical reasons only in a non-repetitive manner.
Sure puts a damper on echomail, doesn't it?
> I don't believe it has any place in an amateur hobbyist network context,
> quite apart from the policy4 implications (no privacy law implications in
> Australia, btw).
  
 CB> you don't believe? is that what Opus hinges on now?
It always hinged on what the people developing it believed, I would guess.
Those that didn't like it wrote their own, thus spang MAX and all kinds of 
good stuff.  Prior developers believed a small memory model was important, 
most everyone else thought not, OPUS stayed small.  They thought keeping 
barefoot capabilities important, it stayed, MAX and others didn't.  I figure 
the guys writing the code do what they believe, mostly.  Don't you?
                                              Jack 
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