SFS2000

[Michael Bacon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Ramsbottom [mailto:donald@ramsbottom.co.uk]
> Sent: 23 March 2000 06:53
> To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: SFS2000
> 
[snip]
> What also became abundantly clear was what Richard said, 
> which is that what
> the LEAs really wanted was the email, and that the rest 
> really does not
> interest them, but has been added "just in case". The problem 
> is that the
> "just in case" carries enormous potential costs and the email 
> is easy and
> cheap to deliver. this is crying out for a compromise where 
> the LEAs get
> what they really want (email) and the rest of us get less 
> interference. 
> 
We've had discussion of what constitutes "public telecommunication systems".
But in the context of Donald's remarks above, what constitutes an "e-mail".
Clearly messages handled through one of the popular "e-mail engines" would
be construed as "e-mail" - through popular usage of the term.  But what
about messages posted to a webpage form and 'scraped' off by the server or
viewed (as an "open letter").  What about "chat rooms".  What about
SMS/pager messages handled over the Internet.  Are these (and other forms)
"e-mail"?

Michael (Streaky) Bacon
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