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

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:59:08AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > SpamAssassin demonstrates quite well that netblock lookups are an
> > unnecessary blunt instrument. Content based filtering and Bayesian
> > analysis can remove spam more effectively, and under the user's control.
> 
> And may well be illegal for ISPs, employers and others to use. Privacy 
> laws mean that your ISP, employer etc are not permitted to peak into your 
> private communications.

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.

-- 
Bruce


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