From: "Alan DeKok" <aland(_at_)freeradius(_dot_)org>
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"Sec. 2511. - Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or
electronic communications prohibited"
I fail to see how normal packet forwarding by third parties is
"interception". The title also includes text about "disclosure".
Filtering spam (or other traffic) out of your network does not
involve disclosure, or interception.
Dropping packets to deal with congestion or even potential congestion
(e.g. RED) doesn't seem to me to involve "Interception and disclosure"
of "communications." Filtering mail based on its use of particular
words (e.g. "FREE!"), phrases, or topics (e.g. "porn") or based on the
identity of its sender (i.e. other than IP address) sounds different.
I am not qualified except to guess whether the ECPA might apply to
spam filtering when done by other than agents of the sender or receiver.
What are your qualifications for making your authoritative sounding
statement about this U.S. law?
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com
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