On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:49:10PM -0400, David Brodbeck wrote:
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| It's an odd ruling. It apparently hinges on the fact that wiretap law
| protects messages that are not being stored -- for example, your phone company
| can't listen in on your phone calls, but voice mail is fair game. The court
| apparently ruled that even if a message is only being held for further
| routing, it's being "stored" on that server, and so eavesdropping is legal.
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What a bogus ruling. For all intents and purposes a message
is in transport until it arrives at the recipient's mailbox.
Whether it's on a spinning disk or in a RAM buffer or on a
wire shouldn't make any difference.