Melon traffickers --> Soul traffickers

Meyer Wolfsheim wolf at priori.net
Wed Sep 5 19:22:16 PDT 2001


On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Tim May wrote:

> There may be an item in the Cyphernomicon about this misconception, that
> common carrier status is something people apply for. It used to be
> claimed by some (don't here it as much anymore) than even bookstores
> could be treated as common carriers "so long as they didn't screen the
> books they sold."


Interesting.

So what does this mean for remailers that do screen content? At the very
least, the mixmaster software comes with the ability for individuals to
block themselves (or other people -- it's not authenticated) from
receiving mail from the remailer.

So, in effect, the remailer is screening mail for that recipient, and
discarding it.

(And there are, or have been, remailers that screen messages for "bad
words." The messages are then dumped into a file for review.)

How does this affect "common carrier" status?


-MW-





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