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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Policies affecting the Internet as a whole - Hitting where it hurts
On Fri, 27 Dec 1996, Robert A. Pickering Jr. wrote: > on (so they can respond), and how they can get off. AOL had none of this > in place. My helpdesk just started to get flooded with calls of people > who couldn't mail family members at AOL. Also, AOL was silently removing > the messages. No bounces, just deletes. So, we had no way of knowing > they were doing it, the mail just didn't show up. You and your users should lay charges against AOL. They were in violation of the ECPA which forbids them from deleting email like that the same way the laws forbid a postal carrier from burning letters they don't want to deliver. And if anyone else is thinking of taking similar action to block email, make sure you either filter port 25 in the router or you bounce back all the email so that the sending party knows the mail is not going to be delivered. Once you accept an email message you have a legal obligation to deliver it to the addressee. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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