At 10:45 AM 1/8/98 -0800, David Miller wrote:
An interesting feature of the digital postmark is that the USPS was making the claim that if you receive an email that the USPS send to you that was not meant for you, then you have committed a federal crime when you read it.
I'm not so sure about this, Robert. I've heard the rumor that it is a crime, but I have also heard that if something is delivered to your box, it is yours and you are not required to send it back unopened if it is not addressed to you. I tend to believe the latter, as it is the side of the story shared by USPS employees.
I wasn't commenting on the legality, but on the fact that the USPS web page was making the claim that it was a crime. Apparently whoever wrote the legal disclaimer felt that email could be misdelivered in the same fashion in which postal mail could be misdelivered and was making this claim. I found the claim to be nutty and made me think they didn't know what they were doing. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key