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

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Tethys wrote:

> 
> >The Received headers are SMTP headers and adding them does not requiring 
> >any scanning of the message content.
> 
> No they're not. They're part of the message body, added by each MTA that
> handles the message en route. The SMTP envelope doesn't contain Received
> headers.

I should have been clearer. Adding those headers does not require any 
content analysis at all beyond finding the Received headers and prepending 
a new one.

Actually scanning content is very different as you know.

The important point here is that without specific consent from the user 
employing content scanning may be unlawful under RIPA.

Jason Clifford
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