Re: incomplete export control terms and conditions ?

Navindra Umanee (navindra@cs.mcgill.ca)
Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:17:26 +0400

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 00:17:26 +0400
From: Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>
To: Marianne Mueller <mrm@Eng>
Subject: Re: incomplete export control terms and conditions ?
In-Reply-To: <199707211809.LAA04683@puffin.eng.sun.com>; from Marianne Mueller on Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 11:09:22AM -0700

Mauritius Tue Jul 22 00:14:21 1997

At one point in cyberspacetime,
Marianne Mueller (mrm@Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:

> It's OK to download the software into Canada. If you are telnetted
> into the machine in Canada, then that explains why you can download to
> it, even if you are physically not in Canada. However, it is not

Yeah, yeah. What I meant to say is that I was able to download the
software from a machine *not* in Canada nor in the USA. It wasn't by
telnetting to a machine in Canada and transfering here but rather a
direct download over an ordinary PPP link. Check your logs for a
download from the domain intnet.mu if possible.

> legal to get around the download restrictions by telnetting into a
> machine in Canada, putting a copy of the software there, and then
> exporting it outside of Canada somehow.

Which is why I wrote to say your downloading prerequisites didn't
mention anything except Citizenship.

Navin