Smith Report + sendmail (revisited)

[Quentin Campbell]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Roland Perry wrote:

> In article <Pine.SOL.4.21.0006301620150.15539-100000@aidan.ncl.ac.uk>,
> Quentin Campbell <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
> 
> >I think I now understand why the Smith Report people picked out "sendmail"
> >for active filtering of mail.
> [...snip...] 
> >Put simply, "sendmail" when configured in this way sends a copy of *every*
> >message (via SMTP) to the filter wherever it is running. 
> 
> Ergghh. *Lots* of bandwidth required, then.
> 
> ps. Another problem here is the one about ISPs being satisfied that they
> are only sending intercept product on people named by warrants. 


That was one of the implications of my last point above. I made that point
because there were suggestions made earlier on this list that the merit of
the "sendmail" active-filter solution was that it *gave* ISPs both control
over interception as well as access to the product of the interception.


 
Quentin
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