Roland Perry - "is an ISP a 'Person'?"

[David Howe]

On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:01:05 +0100
Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> said...
> Leaving the RIPA sh*t, and it is sh*t, out for a moment, if
autoscanning
> isn't interception then ISP's could autoscan MY mail for anything they
> liked, and block mail they thought I shouldn't see.
Indeed true yes. as I have pointed out elsewhere, just because it is a
Bad Thing isn't a reason to try and bend the law to prevent it. It is
censorship; it is almost certainly in Breach of their implied contract
with you to make best effort to deliver mail handed off to their server.
It just isn't interception as defined in RIPA.

> Or from people they disagreed with. Or to people they didn't
> want me to write to. Or any mail that was encrypted. They needn't
> even tell me about it. It wouldn't be an offence.
Not under RIPA no. Lots of things that we don't like aren't illegal, or
if they *are* illegal, aren't illegal under RIPA.