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To: Doug (Htfd,CT) who wrote (23)	3/15/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Roofman	Respond to of 40

Doug, Great post! I haven't yet read the whole memorandum. Definitely intend to, though. Thanks for providing some very valid info. Tom - Hope I didn't come off as a hypster. That certainly was never my intention here. I was just raising what seemed to be some viable possibilities. At the minium, a basis for some constructive discussion. I do realize there is a lot of grey area here. It will be interesting to see how it all pans out. At any rate, another great day for SNMM shareholders. Things, IMO, are looking better by the moment. Long SNMM Roofman

To: Doug (Htfd,CT) who wrote (23)	4/20/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: Doug (Htfd,CT)	Respond to of 40

Another law review article on legal issues of Internet gambling, in University of Florida Law's Journal of Technology Law & Policy, Spring 1999 issue. Scott Olson, Betting No End to Internet Gambling, 4 J. TECH. L. & POL'Y 2 <http://journal.law.ufl.edu/~techlaw/4/Olson.html> (1999). Quoting from two of the introductory paragraphs: "{3} Historically, states have been the only regulators of gambling within their own territories. [7] However, because the Internet has made it much easier to conduct gambling across state and national borders, the authority of states to control gambling within their borders has been undermined. [8] Consequently, Congress has recently introduced bills which are designed to provide states with the authority to enforce their own gambling laws by making it illegal either to receive or place bets or wagers on the Internet. [9] The character of the Internet, however, means that such a law will be virtually ineffective. {4} Part II of this article discusses the recent development of Internet gambling and how such sites operate. Part III describes both the methods that states have used to prohibit Internet gambling and the federal statutes which may be applicable, including the recently introduced Congressional legislation commonly known as the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act. Part IV articulates the numerous reasons why neither state nor federal attempts to control on-line gambling will be effective. Finally, Part V argues that, instead of ineffectually prohibiting Internet gambling, the state and federal governments should accept it as a new form of entertainment and regulate it much like current, legalized forms of gambling. " Scott L. Olson is a Law clerk for the Honorable Ewing Werlein, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas; J.D. University of Pittsburgh School of Law (1998); B.B.A. University of North Dakota (1995). The full article, containing 98 paragraphs and 306 footnotes, details the legal foundation of Mr. Olson's view and is online at journal.law.ufl.edu Doug (long SNMM)