Marc Perkel wrote: *snip*
> > Chris Lightfoot wrote: > >>On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 07:02:20AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> >> >>>Chris Lightfoot wrote: >>> >> >> [...] >> >> >>>>yes, David is correct; in general, IP addresses may be >>>>personal data, and therefore must be processed in >>>>accordance with the data protection principles. >>>> >>> >>>But - repeating myself again - it's not the IP address of the sender's >>>computer. It's the IP address of the smtp host. >>> >> >>doesn't matter -- it may still identify a single living >>individual, and so is personal data. >> Not so long as it is stored without any other user-relevant information, it is not. Even less so than a list of telephone numbers without names would be. That it may be looked-up in a WHOIS, and *might* (temporarily) relate to a specific individual, is a separate issue - one covered by the maintainers of those DB's, which DO store name and address data. Further, to the extent that a connectiivty-ISP is able, by logged timestamps, to determine which of their subscribers was on a DHCP-assigned IP at a particular point in time, is covered under their contract terms. They too, have specific rights, responsibilities, and restrictions on use/release. RBL's - historically absent any such linkage, are not a 'privacy' issue, and it would be legally impractical to try to make them into one. >> >> >>>However, when you do an RBL looking youare sending the same information >>>to all the block lists that you use. >>> >> >>obviously you should only do this if you are satisfied >>that it is legal to do so. >> > > > If what I'm doing isn't legal then everyone who is using DNS blacklists > are also brealing the law because they are sending the host IP to the > blacklist to be tested. I'm not doing here anything that everyone else > isn't doing. > > Not an Exim issue in any case. Let's drop it or take it elsewhere. What *is* an on-thread issue is that the RBL's Marc has proposed aren't testing out as doing anything sufficently new or useful in Exim to attract improvement effort. Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
