Remailer logs

[Tim May]

To add to what I said earlier:

On Sunday, August 5, 2001, at 03:36 PM, Tim May wrote:

> On Sunday, August 5, 2001, at 03:01 PM, Aimee Farr wrote:
>> Yes. Unless it is of special relevance. For example:
>>
>> Dear company:
>>
>> I just wanted to write you and tell you that the microwave that I 
>> bought
>> from you exploded. Thought you should know. Nobody was hurt, thank
>> goodness!
>> Maybe something is wrong with it?
>> ....
>> The above wouldn't just be any old email now would it?
>
> Which is why important letters and notifications which may be relevant
> in some future case are almost always sent via registered mail, served
> in person, and so on. \
>
> There is a big difference between a legal notice like "You are hereby
> notified of a possible defect in your Whackomatic product and copies of
> this letter have been sent to your legal offices and with the Better
> Business Bureau." and "Hey, I hope you kept that e-mail I sent you last
> year."

By the way, my insurance companies, financial advisors, and real estate 
agents will NOT take e-mail orders or instructions. Morgan Stanley Dean 
Witter, for example, will NOT take orders or instructions in e-mail.

Reasons for this are obvious. Now someday there may be a more robust 
_technology_ for ensuring receipt of e-mail (return receipts and digital 
signatures go a long way, of course, toward this end). This may then 
change the _customs_ of users of e-mail. And then the _law_ may evolve 
to fit these changes in technology and custom.

But this is now.


--Tim May