On Wed, 22 May 1996, Martin Minow wrote:
Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li> comments on the responsiblity of prudent persons (in, I presume, the context of threating e-mail sent through an anonymous remailier).
I'm still perplexed: what can a "prudent" remailer operator do if a threatening e-mail was sent through a remailer under one or more of the following conditions:
-- The remailer operator is legally enjoined from reading messages transversing his system. (For example, the remailer is subject to data privacy laws.)
Nothing. Perhaps block e-mail from the address the threat mail was sent from after a certain number of legitimate complaints. This, of course, depends on the threats/whatever being sent to the remailer in question as a 'first in chain' mailer.
-- The message was encrypted using the intended recipient's public key. (This means that, without access to the private key, the operator has no mechanism to examine the e-mail.)
Ask the recipient if he or she wishes all encrypted mail addressed to his or her key to be supressed.
Confused in Cupertino.
Martin Minow minow@apple.com
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