This isn't new for mail processing software developers. US EPCA.
Product liability concerns. You will pay more in commercial
insurance. Tamper with passthru, routing mail, you are at more risk,
more so than others that don't. There were court precedence not only
with tampering, but related to ownership and privacy issues. Google,
yahoo, now facebook, etc, have all relied on the middle ware ownership
legal concept to help get away with the privacy, tampering related
borderline ethical issues. Congress has relaxed the laws to allow for
"Good Samaritan" provisions, where you are allowed to do more, but
don't go overboard. Of course, push come to shove, the devils would be
the details.
Remember, its not just about protecting yourself, but protecting your
customers are well.
On 3/29/2014 1:16 PM, John Levine wrote:
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you write:
I think the privacy beach from exposing intermediate steps is small,
agreed
and in some cases knowledge of the routing may be required by law.
That seems unlikely. Got any citations?
R's,
John
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HLS