Author: Bill Hacker Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] web archive obfuscating mail addresses in message bodies
Tony Finch wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, David Saez Padros wrote:
>
>>Here we have a 'personal data protection' law that forbides anybody to
>>transmit to third parties any email address (which is here considered as
>>personal data) without prior permission from the owner of the email
>>address. This is even worse if that personal data is transmitted to
>>countries without the same level of data protection as our country
>>(which is any non european country). I think this is also part of
>>an european directive.
>
>
> If anyone posts an address to the list, they are implicitly giving
> permission for it to be made public, because this is a public list.
> This is sufficient to satisfy the requirements for data protection
> law, at least in England.
>
> Tony.
A reasonable assumption w/r indemnifying the managers of the list,
providing the minutia have been observed.
Sadly NOT, in and of itself, in full compliance with the UK ordinance.
- Which is worth a read for anyone operating an MTA or MLM under UK
jurisdiction,
and makes good enough sense to have also been the model for the Hong
Kong ordinance.
Rather than see obfuscation, however, it would seem advisable for more
posters to set up
test accounts that belong to no person, yet have the same patterns as
'live' accounts.
Anyone capable of operating an MTA should be able to do that - obfuscation
not needed, and no worry about the ordinances.
