[Gllug] Re: www.spews.org - spamming blacklist

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:

> If a spamfilter neither keeps separate copies of the e-mails nor logs
> their contents then I don't see how it could be considered a privacy
> violation any more than the local delivery process, especially if it
> only adds message headers to indicate the likely spam level.  If that's
> a privacy violation, so are the Received: headers.

It may be a privacy violation due to the fact that it operates on the 
content of the message.

The Received headers are SMTP headers and adding them does not requiring 
any scanning of the message content.

Similarly delivery processes act on SMTP header data and not on message 
content data.

It should also be noted that while these new laws (RIPA et al) *may* have 
this effect it is not entirely clear that they do or do not. As has become 
common lately the laws are deliberately vague.

Jason Clifford
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