Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 06:20:48PM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
[...] > > If it's possible to verify that the person who registered the > > domain name is the same person signing up for service and getting > > the mail for that domain, I can't think of any privacy issues... > > There's a bigger privacy issue. > Accepting and somehow storeing mail for a foreign domain (it is > until the user signs up) would break laws over here. should be > somehow equal in the US. I'm assuming by "foreign" you mean "not signed up with you", not "not in Germany". I obviously don't know German law at all (or US law for that matter!) but how could setting your MX record to somebody's machine not give the owner of that machine permission to receive mail for you? A parallel situation is if somebody is moving to a new office building, and starts handing out business cards with their new address before they're moved in...Whoever runs the building would (presumably) just hang on to the mail, and give it to them when they come for it or when they move in. We actually did that at my work recently, for an organization that is renting out a bit of space from us. Would that be illegal? If I accidentally get a letter addressed to my neighbor, is it illegal to store their mail for them and deliver it to them when they get home? Or is this law specific to email? ----ScottG.
