Hi Phil, On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:02:56PM +0100, Phil Thompson wrote: > I know a Judge and he uses Outlook for Email and IE7 for web browsing. > He would certainly know an email address from a URL, and what to do with > each of them, even if he has to get me to reboot his ADSL router :-)
And he would be happy to set precedent in a court room over what the definition of "electronic mail" is? > How would you argue that a URL to a web form complies with the S.I. :- > > "(a) the name of the service provider; > (b) the geographic address at which the service provider is established; It obviously doesn't comply with either of the above and I wouldn't argue that it does. > (c) the details of the service provider, *including his electronic mail > address*, which make it possible to contact him rapidly and communicate > with him in a direct and effective manner;" If forced to defend this I would argue that sending a message via a web site *is* electronic mail and I'd be fairly confident that you'd not be able to refute it because I don't believe there is any legal definition of what electronic mail is. Nor should there be. If you did try then I'd be bringing up gmail, lots of other web-based email, and all the TV and radio programmes which say "email us from our website, www.example.com.." You are focusing on technical implementation details. > I can see how the web form does the last bit, Since the purpose of the law is clearly in the last bit and you have just agreed that a web form can satisfy that, do you still feel confident that you could convince judge and jury that it is not sufficient? > but there is an explicit requirement for an email address. And one of those is legally defined as..? Do you think that anyone wants to spend time and money in a court arguing that "http://example.com/contact"; is NOT an electronic mail address? No, I think this sort of debate is going to happen only on the Internet between people who have far too much time on their hands. :-) Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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