On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Scott Bradner wrote:

-- 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. --

spammers bill of rights? kinda don't think that would have been the aim.

I think that you can comply with the ECPA by simply bouncing back the email to the sender and only if that is not possible, then drop it in /dev/null. Since spammers almost always have bogus reply addresses you shouldn't run into a problem with this even if you are a relay since once you have failed to bounce back one message, you can then add that source address to a list that you refuse to accept email from. If there is a way that spammers can launch a lawsuit against AT&T on the basis of the ECPA then I am sure they will try so it's best to be proactive here. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com