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- From: fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner)
- Subject: Re: UUCP mail processing ethics
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 06:28:39 GMT
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- In article <is5euB1w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
- |Does anybody but me think there may be a privacy issue here? [logging
- |passthru mail]
-
- I don't. All machines on the Internet that I know of log all the mail that
- pass through them. Logs of passthru mail are invaluable when trying to
- track down problems, as well as useful for possibly charging the people you
- feed by volume/number of messages, if you operate on a cost-recovery basis
- or something...
-
- |I.e., does the sender have the right to expect that the interme-
- |diate site will do *nothing* but affix its postmark and send the message on
- |its way?
-
- No.
-
- Bill
-