[35986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL holes again.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Tue Mar 20 19:39:13 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:36:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 06:47:31PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > > Especially those who've read the 1986 law requiring it.
> > Citation, please?
> Title 18, Chapter 119, sections 2510 through 2522.
> It forbids "interception" of electronic mail.
> Interception is defined as "acquiring the contents", but it's defined
> broadly enough that if you get the message onto your hard drive and don't
> deliver it, obviously you weren't acquiring it for the purpose of
> delivering it, so you have intercepted it for reasons not related to
> providing the service, and thus have committed a felony for EACH email
> intercepted.
Then presumably rejecting the connection with a '571 eat my spamfilter'
outright is legal.
-Dan
