On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:40:07PM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: > Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:20:48PM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: > > There's a bigger privacy issue. > > Accepting and somehow storeing mail for a foreign domain (it is > > until the user signs up) would break laws over here. should be > > somehow equal in the US. > I'm assuming by "foreign" you mean "not signed up with you", not "not > in Germany".
yes ;-) > I obviously don't know German law at all (or US law for that matter!) > but how could setting your MX record to somebody's machine not give > the owner of that machine permission to receive mail for you? not that I'm really familar with law here, but these kind of actions require an explicit agreement by the user. ah "btw, an MX will be created pointing to our partner" somewhere in this 6pt font docs is not sufficient. even if that wouldn't be law, it's a matter of doing serious business, > A parallel situation is if somebody is moving to a new office > building, and starts handing out business cards with their new address > before they're moved in...Whoever runs the building would (presumably) > just hang on to the mail, and give it to them when they come for it or > when they move in. We actually did that at my work recently, for an > organization that is renting out a bit of space from us. Would that > be illegal? If I accidentally get a letter addressed to my neighbor, > is it illegal to store their mail for them and deliver it to them when > they get home? If you don't have an agreement by them or at least common sense dictates they would agree, presumably yes. > Or is this law specific to email? not that familar with the laws, but there's an important difference. mail is in an envelope. email is cleartext. hmm, somehow this part of the discussion is pointless. I'm neither sure that it really and explicitely breaks laws. I am sure lawyers could earn a lot of money on such issues. and after all it's a question of moral. -- | Henning Brauer | PGP-Key: http://misc.bsws.de/hb/pubkey.asc | BS Web Services | Roedingsmarkt 14, 20459 Hamburg, DE | http://bsws.de Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
