one-to-many messaging

[Peter Fairbrother]

Roland Perry wrote:
> In article <47F233B7.8000707@callnetuk.com>, PeteM <otcbn@callnetuk.com> 
> writes
>>>> Be that as it may, what is clearly not lawful is the presentation of
>>>> forged 404s to people trying to access pages on the blocked list.
>>>  But it would be clearly lawful if the Royal Mail intercepted a 
>>> shipment of
>>> illegal pornography from oversees, having been tipped off by Customs 
>>> of the
>>> channels and identifying features such shipments carried?
>>
>> It would be if they sent somebody a forged 404 in the course of the 
>> interception.
> 
> Mindful of the fact that throwing away a communication (the outbound one 
> in this case) isn't interception, what law do you think is being broken?

The analogy is flawed, as explained elsewhere - but in an internet case 
the action of looking at the communication in order to decide whether to 
block it is almost certainly interception.

-- Peter Fairbrother