Computer Misuse (Amendement) Bill

[Pete Chown]

Nexus wrote:

> This can be done to a certain extent with suitable banners and "click here
> to continue" type links/buttons.   That said though, if you use a script or
> application to connect or whatever, you could argue that you didn't see the
> banner yourself...

% telnet mx03.hotmail.com smtp

... snip ...

220-HotMail (NO UCE) ESMTP server ready at Mon, 13 May 2002 11:29:14 -0700 
             ^^^^^^

People wouldn't see this one in normal use...  But it would be nice if
there was a way of publishing the policy so that it could be acted on
automatically, along the lines of robots.txt.

-- 
Pete