Aaron Wolfe wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Duane Hill <d.h...@yournetplus.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Steve Freegard wrote: >> >> >>> 5) Privacy concerns; potentially a domains entire mail stream for the >>> last 5 days could be held on your mail spool. This has obvious privacy >>> implications for most people particularly as there is no contract >>> between you and the end-user. How does the end-user know that you've >>> delivered it all? Or that you haven't copied or read it? >>> >> I would agree. I know for a fact our CEO would want a contract and an NDA >> notarized and signed. Not to mention, I have stricken down any decision made >> that would pass our email stream to/through any third party service(s). >> >> > > you decided not to use the internet, then? > > Shh, don't tell him that other companies own the intertubes :)
That said, there is at least some difference between a carrier and a server. Carriers, at least theoretically, don't store data, they merely transfer it. Of course, routers buffer packets, but this is a ram only process and rather short lived (small fractions of a second) Servers on the other hand, intentionally store data on disk for noticeable periods of time (seconds to days) and delete it some time later after retransmission. This is at least a slightly more difficult data format to create copies of, since the data is "still" for a longer period of time and it's on a computer system which is inherently designed to be able to make additional copies. Of course, if you believe that it's impossible for a disgruntled ISP employee to tap off copies of email going to your site, well, I hate to break it to you, but Santa isn't real.. :)
