Re: Anti-SPAM announcement from AT&T Worldnet
> Any email...even regular questions/replies....I think specific > types of email would be more appropriate..."spam","obscene" etc. I read it as clearly stating that _any_ mail (not limited to spam or obscene, etc.) being relayed (not to or from an AT&T Worldnet customer) will not be delivered by AT&T Worldnet's mail servers. ``We have reserved the right to treat such mail any way we deem appropriate,''. This may include actually delivering it, but in the vast majority of cases I do not expect the mail to reach its intended destination(s). We will be keeping statistics and I hope to be able to present these in some public forum in due course. Jonathan
On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Jonathan Clark wrote:
``We have reserved the right to treat such mail any way we deem appropriate,''. This may include actually delivering it, but in the vast majority of cases I do not expect the mail to reach its intended destination(s).
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under the impression that the Electronic Communications Act of 1986 (?) makes it quite illegal to screw around with mail that you have accepted for delivery. You have the option of not accepting it at all, but once you accept a piece of mail destined for someone, you're obligated to make a best effort to deliver it. You can't reserve a right that you don't have to begin with, even if you are AT&T.
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