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Inside.com articles have an unfortunate habit of retreating behind a pay-firewall eventually, but the below article is currently available at no charge with no registration required. Judge Alex Kozinski's splendid open letter to federal judges: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001063 -Declan ********* From: "Noam Cohen" <ncohen@inside.com> To: <declan@well.com> Subject: Kozinski Screed Pays Dividends Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 20:11:11 -0400 Declan - don't know if you saw the latest twist in the federal judges' privacy fight: Government Appears to Back Down After Judges Protest Monitoring of Their Computers Policy was meant to prevent abuse of equipment, but jurists say it threatened their independence. Dispute turned ugly in recent days as appellate judge used Op-Ed piece to assail 'bureaucrat' he accused of devising the rule. At this link: http://www.inside.com/product/product.asp?entity=&pf_ID=774A1EA4-B8BB-458A-8C05-C8613405BA5F Noam Cohen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------