--On 13 October 2006 20:23:59 +0800 W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > There's also a potential legal liability issue. > > With X.400 maybe. > > ;-) > > But smtp is a 'no guarantees possible' best-efforts protocol. Not according to at least one UK court judgement, where an email (a notification of arbitration) was accepted then not acted upon. The recipient claimed that notice had not been properly served, when it discovered after the fact that the arbitration had gone against htem. The judgement was that if the company had rejected the email, notification of an arbitration would not have been properly served. Since the company accepted the email, but ignored it, the notice was regarded as properly served. > Anyway - user choice, so no different than someone's junk filter or > manual decision to delete unread (or read). Yes, but why give people extra rope to hang themselves? Better to reject what you're not going to deliver - if possible. > Thanks, > > Bill -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex -- ## 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/
