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From: dave@ur-helheim.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: ading other peoples' mail
Message-ID: <602@ur-helheim.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Apr-86 12:55:37 EST
Article-I.D.: ur-helhe.602
Posted: Wed Apr 16 12:55:37 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 08:16:28 EST
References: <703@frog.UUCP> <12400018@uiucdcs> <2410@jhunix.UUCP> <132@fai.UUCP> <4697@ut-sally.UUCP> <692@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: dave@helheim.UUCP (Raver Dave)
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In article <692@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In article <132@fai.UUCP>, ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) writes:
>> How do the rest of you system administrators feel?  Is it within your
>> rights to open other people's mail?
>
>In article <4697@ut-sally.UUCP>, nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) writes:
>> the pattern of our past: "Thou shalt not read other people's E-mail, either."
>
etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc
>
>I think it's a good policy.
>-- 
>John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
>			     Post no bills.


I guess the solution is for mail partners to pass a crypt key in USmail that
will be used for all further "secure" purposes.  My bet is your sites don't
want to know about others private mail enough to tackle a random crypt key
ecryption/decryption.  Personally, I find reading other persons mail for
whatever personal or corporate gain you envision repugnant.  Your arguments
of your legal responsibility for thru transit are specious and often repeated
on this forum (stargate related).  I refuse to believe culpability for thru-
traffic can be held to the site adm.  If the service you provide as a thru-
site is totally blind -- as in the case of the phone company -- you are less
likely to be held liable.  (Perhaps negligent though, eh??!!)  The case
cited here is illegal activity involving interstate transmission of telegraphs.
But telegraphs are not phones and are not guaranteed private or secure.
blind service.
-- 
"The Faster I Go the Behinder I Get"
--Lewis Carroll

Dave Carlson

{allegra,seismo,decvax}!rochester!ur-valhalla!dave