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[Ian G Batten]

[[ Yes, this is slightly off-topic.  But only slightly ]]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Charles Lindsey wrote:
> I don't think RIPA allows "articles read" and "use of newsgroups" to be
> classed as communications data. I think the most that could be stored
> would be the identity of the site to which an HTTP or NNTP connection
> was made (and even that might turn out to be a proxy in most cases,
> unless the LEA also has access to the proxy logs and the means to do the
> necessary correlations).

Having in the past week been served with an order by NCIS to provide
information from my logs dating back to September --- which, needless to
say, I don't have --- I've been watching the new legislation with
interest.  I'm still not clear what I (a) must and (b) may retain as
logging on things like mail servers, web proxies and dialup access
servers.  As of the final version of the Terrorism Act, is it OK to just
keep no logs?

To take a slightly complex example, I have a personal offsite server,
which is hosted in another organisation's racks.  It does outgoing SMTP
for me, not passing through their mail relay.  Are they in a difficult
position, allowing mail to leave their network without logging it?  Do I
have to keep logs?

ian