Ian Eiloart wrote: > > > --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. >
Heard that before. All that case proves is that once in a very great while a UK court acts as stupidly as a US one. Fortunately very seldom. Google spamhaus and legal for a bogus 11 Million judgment in favor of a spammer in a clUeleSs court. Then the gloating perp posted the court docs on his website, allowing easy load of his ~/24's into local BL here, just in case spamhaus DOES have to piull them (not happening...). Access to good case law, a few years of US law, and placing a good deal of trust in the effectiveness of the team of Walther, Barretta & Eccheverria has kept my legal fees under US$ 2,000 for a 62-year-total. (not counting real-estate purchase & sale). >> 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. > Dunno where you get an 'extra rope' analogy... Who's ox is being gored? A spammer? We look on spam as 'fraudulent conversion' (of our storage, bandwidth, and staff time - to their ends). Thieves they are also of fractional portions of human life. Billions of such. Sounds like multiple counts of 'assault with intent to maim' to me. Best, Bill -- ## 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/
