Knowledge Networks used traditional telephone and mail sampling methods to randomly recruit respondents.

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Postmen, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of their neighbourhood had long been the backbone of mail distribution, had lost track of their flock during the fighting.

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"Although the FBI is legally forbidden from monitoring the communications of citizens who are not targets under Carnivore, the mere knowledge that government agents have the technical capacity to read e-mail messages will greatly increase the uncertainty of innocent citizens, " argued Dr. Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at Georgetown University.

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