Hi,
there is a pretty good summary linked within the article :
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/55210
This decision deals with filtering the email of a person who had left the university and tried to stay in contact with his former co-workers. The universitiy did not want thjis, and thus blocked all email containing the former employees name.
This has got nothing to do with spam filtering, unless somebody complains that he/she wants to read all the nonsense 8-)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kang, Joseph S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@spamassassin.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:52 PM
Subject: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.
Not sure how this will work itself out (or how old this story is) but it's probably worth noting and keeping an eye on...
"The Higher Regional Court now has ruled that blocking email by content is unlawful as it is considered confidential in German law. Blocking is only allowed when, say, a viral attack is imminent."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/18/german_email_blocking/
Anyone know enough German (or is German) who can translate the ruling that's
linked in the above article? The Google translated version is a tad hard to
decipher.
-Joe K. Systems Administrator Network Executive Software, Inc. 888-604-5573 / postmaster(at)netex(dot)com
