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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 19:17:11 -0700 From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net> Subject: Re: Remailer Attack (fwd)
- some sort of legal protection and recognition for the remailer operators
I believe remailers are strongly protected by the Electronic Communcations Privacy Act, which explicitly says that reconveyors or intermediary parties
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This line of reasoning has not been used in any defense, perhaps because there have been no prosecutions of remailers. Whether the courts, including The Court, will conclude that the ECPA is protection, is of course unknown to me.
But that is the exact point I'm making - it hasn't been tested. Before anyone with a lick of sense is going to jump into the remailer business big-time somebody is going to have to put their neck on the block and set the liability standard.
- some mechanism for them to operate as a business entity with a clear profit.
And I mentioned this specifically.
I'll grant you mentioned digital postage. This simply is not robust enough to handle the world of a commercial remailer operator. We'll just have to agree to disagree here because the standard digital postage argument simply doesn't sway me to support it. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|