Re: German law 303a (was Re: Spamassassin not catching spam (Follow-up))
Am 26.03.2015 um 16:39 schrieb David F. Skoll: > I find this discussion intriguing. The German law cited earlier also > forbids you from changing data (original German word "verändert" --- > did I get that right?) > > It seems to me this could make subject tagging illegal. In fact, a rigid > interpretation could make SMTP illegal since you add a Received: header > at each hop, and that's certainly modifying the data being transmitted. > > I believe this is a case of non-technical legislators completely failing > to forsee the logical consequences of their law. :) > > Regards, > > David. > Common legal accepted practice is silent discard mail is forbidden, tagging mail is allowed reject mail is allowed anyway, exception is virus mail as averting of a danger. If its your personal mail you can do what you want. As mail provider you may get contracted to filter. But be sure to have good legal advice if your filter does silent discard. Thats best practice for over 10 years now. And yes laws may miracle included everywhere, there are tons of them in the US i will never understand too *g Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
Re: German law 303a (was Re: Spamassassin not catching spam (Follow-up))
Am 26.03.2015 um 16:39 schrieb David F. Skoll: I find this discussion intriguing. The German law cited earlier also forbids you from changing data (original German word "verändert" --- did I get that right?) It seems to me this could make subject tagging illegal. In fact, a rigid interpretation could make SMTP illegal since you add a Received: header at each hop, and that's certainly modifying the data being transmitted. I believe this is a case of non-technical legislators completely failing to forsee the logical consequences of their law. :) that may all be true and like won't matter most of the time it starts to matter if you silent discard a important message and some large party with a good laywer pretends he lost xxx $ money because of the not happened resend or contact over a dfiierent medium in the assumption the mail was delivered yes i am aware that one could pretend not got a mail anyways, but in that case you can prove at least the delivery to the mailbox with your logs, if your last log entry is "discarded" you are out of luck signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
German law 303a (was Re: Spamassassin not catching spam (Follow-up))
I find this discussion intriguing. The German law cited earlier also forbids you from changing data (original German word "verändert" --- did I get that right?) It seems to me this could make subject tagging illegal. In fact, a rigid interpretation could make SMTP illegal since you add a Received: header at each hop, and that's certainly modifying the data being transmitted. I believe this is a case of non-technical legislators completely failing to forsee the logical consequences of their law. :) Regards, David.
