[EXIM] Legal implications

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Author: Leonardo Boselli
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To: michael, exim-users
Old-Topics: Re: [EXIM] (un)blocking dynamic IP addresses [Was: A way to do this?]
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Subject: [EXIM] Legal implications
On 20 Apr 99, at 8:19, michael@??? wrote:
> > > Not only that
> > > but these are policy decisions that end providers *must* be *free* to
> > > make on their own.
> > Nobody wants to take this freedom from ISPs, but I prefer my mail
> > not to be redirected. They may _advise_ me to send the mail
> > through their box, but I don't want them to push me to comply to
> > their decisions.
> If all mail runs through the ISP's mail system, then it leaves traces in
> logs and the tech support can tell customers, who complain that mail "does
> not work", what exactly happened with email, e.g. that it never reached
> the ISP. :)


And assume that you redirected, and so "accepted"an e-mail
message on behalf of another server, pretending you are the other
one ...
Then you are unable to deliver to the anyone ....
You could be sued for diverting private e-mail and liable for delays
....

Leonardo Boselli (NIT)
Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze
Via Santa Marta 3
I-50139 Firenze
+39()055-4796-431

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