The Great Zero Challenge

[Roland Perry]

In article <48C5BE71.8070700@zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes
>So post-RIPA an (un?)articled clerk might be committing a RIPA offense 
>in opening an envelope marked "for addressee only" if it was clear that 
>it was meant only for the senior partner (assuming it was still 
>technically in transit in a public communications system - but see Lord 
>Bassam's doormat, maybe the internal mail system of a solicitor's 
>office is a private comms system).

That's the whole point of the 'doormat' concept. It is to decriminalise 
things that happen after the Royal Mail has let go of them.

(And also to avoid an offence of interception when a PBX has a "group 
pickup" function, and so on...)
-- 
Roland Perry