Let me say that I am not trying to start a flame war or anything, and think that both spam filtering and virus scanning at the mail server are good things. However...
ISP's, and web hosters are all in essence, but not really common carriers (in the US). We cannot be prosecuted for any bad stuff (like spam, viruses, or bomb threats) that is passed through our networks. However there is a lot of legal precedence in the US and abroad that if you taking upon the role of editor, that you become responsible for the content. So does scanning viruses and filtering spam for users, equal editorial responsibility? I personally think so, but it hasn't been tested in court yet to my knowledge. I see a scenario where a semi-legitimate spammer sues an ISP for blocking his "marketing" that a user wanted, because somehow he got on a filter list, or how about the business who thought their ISP was filtering viruses and one gets through and wipes out a million dollar database? Just one of those things to keep in the back of your mind... jon Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
