Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

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At 09:58 PM 1/12/2004, Dean Anderson wrote...
>On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike S wrote:
>1) privacy - routing via my ISP's outbound SMTP gives them
>> the right to intercept and read my email, according the ECPA;
>
>Err, Just the opposite is more freqently the case.The ECPA specifically prohibits the ISP from exceeding its limited authority.

Cite, please. I've got one:

"(2)(a)(i) It shall not be unlawful under this chapter for an ... agent of a provider  of  wire  or  electronic communication  service,  whose facilities  are used in the transmission of a wire or  electronic communication, to intercept, disclose, or use that  communication in the normal  course of his employment..."

>2) control - sending from my own system allows me to control retry
>> attempts and times, instead of being forced to wait 4 days for my ISP
>> to bounce an undelivered back to me, assuming they don't just silently
>> lose it.
>
>If your contract allows you to run your own system, then the ISP would not
>be allowed to prevent you from doing that.  This could be made into an
>ECPA issue---some people think it is merely and only a contract
>non-performance issue and said contract excludes liability for failure to
>perform.  Like the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the ECPA is a criminal statute
>with civil actions permitted, and carries its own civil and criminal
>penalties.

My ISP's support of the MAPS DUL, and the use of the MAPS system by others, is a violation of 18 U.S.C. 1030. Email me for details, but I've covered this on this list recently.

>Of course, if your contract does not allow you to run your own system,
>then you don't have a complaint about blacklists blocking it.

There is nothing to prohibit direct routing of email.




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