Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP Newsgroups: news.misc,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: E-mail protected like U.S. Mail? Message-ID: <3550@cbosgd.ATT.COM> Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 14:15:49 EST Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3550 Posted: Wed Apr 22 14:15:49 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Apr-87 02:56:04 EST References: <1128@cartan.Berkeley.EDU} <1065@epimass.UUCP> <5553@eddie.MIT.EDU> <493@gouldsd.UUCP> <1798@whuts.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh Lines: 6 Xref: utgpu news.misc:288 news.sysadmin:123 Summary: what about ECPA? I don't have the references handy, but doesn't the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (discussed at length on Usenet last year) do essentially what people are saying - protect disclosure of email? Leahy was the (a) sponsor, and I think the number was something like S.1875. Mark