Re: Blocking spam by IP number
This kind of information would look good on our web site.
On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Bruce Perens <bruce@debian.org> writes:
> > By the way, I return an error message rather than simply delaying the
> > connection until it times out because under the Electronic Communications
> > and Privacy Act it is unlawful to intercept electronic mail without an
> > indication to the sender.
>
> From: Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>
> > How would this apply to kernel firewalling (leaving aside that I live
> > in NZ)? Would reject be OK and deny not?
>
> An immediate reject would be fine. The most important thing (to a U.S. user)
> is to inform _all_ users that you do not guarantee reliable delivery of
> e-mail and that you do not guarantee that nobody will read their e-mail.
> You might even want to put this in your /etc/motd.
> This will remove some of your liability under the ECPA. However, even once
> you have done that, you can go to jail for intercepting the e-mail of one
> of your users and preventing it from being delivered without informing the
> other party. Most writers of anti-spam software are blissfully ignorant of
> this. Thus, do not cause it to time out in the message queue. Return an
> SMTP error immediately, so that the other party is informed of non-delivery.
>
> Bruce
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