GAK-killing amendments?

[Roland Perry]

In article <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007030927220.15539-100000@aidan.ncl.ac.uk>,
Quentin Campbell <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
>I am intrigued by the source and chronology of the "two line sendmail
>rule" suggestion. If the source was the Home Office people as you suggest
>above then they were surprisingly well briefed about the capabilities of a
>completely new facility in sendmail released only a few months previously.

I'm afraid I don't buy your suggestion that the idea was to use that new
Sendmail facility and do the filtering off-site. Everything they have
ever said has rubbed in the necessity for the target's communications to
be filtered out *as much as humanly possible* BEFORE being sent off to
the agencies [1]. And the amount of bandwidth they are talking about is
only useful for already-filtered-out emails.

[1] Or now, GTAC acting as a redistribution centre for the agencies.
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