Man and machine (was Re: Is virus scanning interception?)

[Ken Brown]

But in actual fact the operators of mail servers can read all the mail
anyway. It is all "available"  to us at all times. 

Roland Perry wrote:
> 
> In message <B95CD22C.21F2C%zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother
> <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes
> >If you cause something to happen, it is as if you did it yourself.
> >
> >If you have run software that deletes mail with viruses in it, you have
> >deleted the mail. The machine has deleted the mail, the software has deleted
> >the mail, but you too have deleted the mail.
> 
> Deleting mail is not an offence under RIPA.
> 
> >If the software has access to the content, and bases the decision to delete
> >the mail on that content, you have deleted the mail based on access to the
> >content.
> 
> No, because the content has not been made available to a person.
> 
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