Re: Discovering users by RCPT TO

[Tobias Glemser <tglemser () tele-consulting com>]

--On Sonntag, 16. Januar 2005 18:26 +0100 Baltasar Cevc 
<baltasar () cevc-topp de> wrote:

> And at least here in Germany, knowingly not delivering mail is illegal;
I think you refer to the finding (file number 1 Ws 152/04 of 05/01/10) by 
OLG Karlsruhe and the legal problems when automatically filtering and 
deleting spam mails adressed to correct recipients.

If you accept any eMail to any recipient and only deliver to the valid 
recipient and delete all other mails without noticing the original sender, 
this shouln't be illegal - even in germany :) It only might be illegal, if 
the recipient is valid.

For all who want to now more about the actual discussion here are 3 
Websites discussing the problem (in german):

http://www.olg-karlsruhe.de/html/presse/2005/ausfiltern%20von%20e-mails%20ist%20strafbar.htm
  "Ausfiltern von e-mails ist strafbar"

http://www.heise.de/ct/03/26/186/
  "Strafbares Filtern - Juristische Fallstricke für Antispam-Software"

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/55201
  "OLG: Gezieltes Ausfiltern von E-Mails kann strafbar sein"

Toby