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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Reubelt)
Tue Jul 1 13:39:45 1997

Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:04:16 -0700
From: Scott Reubelt <sreubelt@whistle.com>
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To: NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>

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Scott F. Reubelt
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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 09:03:46 -0700
From: Scott Reubelt <sreubelt@whistle.com>
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To: "Paul R.D. Lantinga" <planting@eit.com>
Subject: Re: Legal Question
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Paul R.D. Lantinga wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Scott Reubelt wrote:
> 
> > May not be for this alias but I need to ask.
> >
> > I have an ISP that may be guilty of receiving copies of everyone's
> > emails associated with the ISP.  What can be done legally?
> 
> Scott, are you talking receiving here, as in the ISP was cc'ed or making
> copies here, as in the ISP make copies of email w/o consent?

Scott Bradner wrote:
> 
> call the justice dept, that violates the telcom laws
> 
> (assuming that you mean that the ISP is taking a copy of email that
> is destined to the ISP's customers - it is a bit unclear from your note)
> 
> Scott

To clarify this a bit.  I have been told that an ISP owner(postmaster)
is cc'ing all emails without consent at least with his employee's.  I
don't believe it stops there but can not confirm at this time.

Thank all for the input.

Scott

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