What is Communications Data?

[Ian G Batten]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, David Howe wrote:
> >> How about a To: header like fred@somewhere.com? Isn't that both
> >> content and traffic data?
> > (especially in Spam and some mailing lists) the To: header bears no
> > relation at all to the person to whom the email is actually
> > delivered.
> but perhaps it "purports to be" ?

Not really: there's nothing stopping every piece of mail having
``undisclosed-recipients:;'' and virtually nothing, apart from the odd
procmail / sieve / etc script will notice.  Purports is awfully strong:
``vaguely implies that it might possibly bear some relation to'' would
be closer.

ian