'Tone of the list' discussion

[Lorenzo Taylor]

Laŭ Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu):
# According to the Belgian Telecommunications Act (which is just an
# implementation of European law, so it should be similar across the whole
# European Union) it is illegal for service providers to tamper with the
# communications they handle (like email, phone, fax,...) without the
# explicit prior consent of the user, except when it is needed for the
# functioning of the service.
# Adding headers is not considered tampering because they are not part of
# the actual message itself. They are part of the functioning of the service.

Sounds like we need such a law here in the states. Funny thing is that I thought 
we had a law like that, but it either doesn't cover "Sent from my T-Mobile 
Blackberry" or it just doesn't work at all because it seems the companies 
themselves write our laws.

Live long and prosper,
Lorenzo
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