DOJ proposes US data-rentention law.

Jeffrey I. Schiller jis at mit.edu
Sat Jun 22 11:40:00 PDT 2002


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 02:56:10PM -0700, Lucky Green wrote:
> Locate the button in your MUA that's labeled "Use secure connection" or
> something to that effect, search the docs for your MTA for the words
> "STARTTLS", "relaying", and potentially "SASL", don't use your ISP's
> smtp server, encourage those that you are communicating with to do the
> same, and the email data retention laws will be of no bother to you.

Of course the anti-spam people are telling ISP's to block port 25 and
require end-users to forward their e-mail through the ISP owned mail
gateways...

I've always had the fear that in the clammer to get rid of spam we
would wind up building a centralized mail routing system, the spy's
delight!

			-Jeff

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