Tim- It's an amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and it governs what a company that's sued has to do to comply with discovery requests. It doesn't single out WISPs or carriers. Here's a good explanation: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/01/AR2006120100233.html
Mark C. Del Bianco Law Office of Mark Del Bianco 3929 Washington St. Kensington, MD 20895 301-933-7216 Communications Law for the Digital Age Tim Kerns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As a common carrier I can understand and agree. What about providing E-mail services to our customers, do we then need to keep copies of all e-mail that comes into or goes out our server? Tim Kerns ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blair Davis" To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:45 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] New Recording LAW in effect today? > We are common carriers. We no more have to copy peoples e-mail than the > phone company has to record the contents of every call. > > Tim Kerns wrote: > >> I caught a brief report on FoxNews today about a requirement for keeping >> copies of E-mail. It seems that we may be required to maintain a copy for >> use at later time for criminal courts. Anyone know of this or have more >> info on it? Is it every ISP or only Corporations. This could be >> disasterious..... sell alot of storage devices... The Foxnews report says >> the requirement begins today and as usual not a lot of detail. >> >> Tim Kerns >> CV-Access, Inc. >> > > > -- > Blair Davis > > AOL IM Screen Name -- Theory240 > > West Michigan Wireless ISP > 269-686-8648 > > A division of: > Camp Communication Services, INC > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ Mark C. Del Bianco Law Office of Mark Del Bianco 3929 Washington St. Kensington, MD 20895 301-933-7216 Communications Law for the Digital Age **************************************************** This e-mail and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the named addressee(s) and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please immediately notify me at (301) 933-7216 and permanently delete the original copy and any copy of any e-mail, and any printout thereof. -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
