The Great Zero Challenge

Wendy M. Grossman ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:44:29 +0100


Roland Perry wrote:
> 
> Reminds me of the (still unresolved as far as I'm aware) "RIPA 
> one-to-many wars". Is the intended recipient of *this* email:
> 
> (1) Ian Batten
> (2) The ukcrypto mailing list robot
> (3) Everyone on the UKCrypto list
> (4) Something else - eg it changes from #2 to #3 during transmission.

Plus: whose intention. If I take a confidential email that arrives in my 
in-box and forward it to, say, the editor of the New York Times, that 
editor is not the original sender's intended recipient, but he's 
certainly *my* intended recipient.

wg