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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Shawn McMahon wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 06:47:31PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > > Especially those who've read the 1986 law requiring it. > > Citation, please? > Title 18, Chapter 119, sections 2510 through 2522. > It forbids "interception" of electronic mail. > Interception is defined as "acquiring the contents", but it's defined > broadly enough that if you get the message onto your hard drive and don't > deliver it, obviously you weren't acquiring it for the purpose of > delivering it, so you have intercepted it for reasons not related to > providing the service, and thus have committed a felony for EACH email > intercepted. Then presumably rejecting the connection with a '571 eat my spamfilter' outright is legal. -Dan
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