Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-20 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 09:39, Frank M. Cook wrote: SA shouldn't have this problem. However, the larger issue of whether or not any sort of SPAM filtering solution is considered legal is my concern. this is an argument for simply rewriting the subject so that the user can decide whether to

Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread C-Store Christoph Peter
Hi, there is a pretty good summary linked within the article : http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/55210 This decision deals with filtering the email of a person who had left the university and tried to stay in contact with his former co-workers. The universitiy did not want thjis, and

RE: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread Kang, Joseph S.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:06 AM To: Kang, Joseph S. Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'. As far as i understood this is that mails must get

Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread Roger WJ Alterskjær
I had the same thought when initially setting up our system. Our university has pretty strict rules regarding content-filtering. I got around it by having SA tag spam (using X-Spam-Status, no subject re-write), then a procmail in each users folder autmagically puts these into a Spam-folder.

Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
Joe K. wrote: Anyone know enough German (or is German) who can translate the ruling that's linked in the above article? As I am lacking the time for a full translation: the core of the ruling is that the university had, under German law, no right to block all mail originating from or sent to a