On 10/28/2015 12:48 AM, Niels Dettenbach (Syndicat.com) wrote: >> By that theory, spam filtering would be illegal, too, yet all the >> >German ISPs I know manage to do it. > If i understand correctly, it *is* illegal, except if the ISP / mail service customer allows it (i.e. by contract). Where spam fighting is getting "intrusive" be the meaning of that law (i.e. using Headers, subject, body etc.), is a bit unclear afaik. > > So the most Herman ISPs (should) have a corresponding part in their contracts... On the average over the years, substantive discussion of legal details, relative to work in the IETF, has proved unhelpful to that work. Sometimes the entertainment value has been significant, however, but not any intended engineering guidance. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net