Data Retention Regulations in the Lords

[David Hansen]

On 27 Mar 2009 at 9:43, Roland Perry wrote:

> I think you are guilty of the effect we saw in Brussels when negotiating 
> the Privacy Directive (which had some anti-spam measures and therefore 
> benefited from those discussing it understanding a little about what 
> spam is); viz "all email is like Hotmail" [1]. (Or perhaps more 
> recently, "like Gmail").

I don't think so.

> However, conventional ISP spam detection is just as likely to simply 
> throw it away. Sometimes even before it's been accepted at the 
> destination ISP, as a result of various internal or external blacklists.

One can tell them to throw it away by working the various controls in a 
control panel. Some ISPs may even be foolish enough to have this turned 
on by default [1] though their lawyers may have something to say about 
that. I would take my business elsewhere if one told me that they would 
decide what to do with this and I need not worry my pretty little head 
about it.


[1] throwing away the oldest when a fiolder is full, or throwing it 
away after say a month, is a different matter.




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  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
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