Re: FIDOnet encryption (or lack thereof)

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In a msg on <Sep 30 12:15>, mnemonic@eff.org of 1:216/21 writes:

 m> From  owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
 m> From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
 m> To:   mdiehl@triton.unm.edu (J. Michael Diehl)
 m> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 11:45:09 -0400 (EDT)
 m> Cc:   yerazunis@aidev.enet.dec.com, cypherpunks@toad.com

 m> Well, there's no doubt that users of his system can agree to 
 m> allow the sysop to read their mail. But what about people 
 m> whose mail passes *through* his system on the way to somewhere 
 m> else?

 m> He has no agreement with them.


FidoNet policy has a statement allowing monitoring of all intransit
mail.  I guess I'm going to have to dig my copy of Policy out of the
archives to post the relevant paragraphs.

This is a very shortsighted policy.

Although financial restraints have curtailed my operations here making
a lot of this moot, my own policy allows all users and passthru mail to be
encrypted.  I neither monitor nor censor.



Jim
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 Jim Cannell      Internet: Jim.Cannell@f21.n216.z1.fidonet.org

Jim writes:

> FidoNet policy has a statement allowing monitoring of all intransit
> mail.  I guess I'm going to have to dig my copy of Policy out of the
> archives to post the relevant paragraphs.
>  Jim Cannell      Internet: Jim.Cannell@f21.n216.z1.fidonet.org
If all users of FidoNet systems read this and agree with it prior to using
mail, then there's probably not an ECPA problem.


--Mike

Mike Godwin says:
>  
> Jim writes:
> 
> > FidoNet policy has a statement allowing monitoring of all intransit
> > mail.  I guess I'm going to have to dig my copy of Policy out of the
> > archives to post the relevant paragraphs.
> >  Jim Cannell      Internet: Jim.Cannell@f21.n216.z1.fidonet.org
> If all users of FidoNet systems read this and agree with it prior to using
> mail, then there's probably not an ECPA problem.

Mike;

Wouldn't users outside of Fidonet sending mail to Fidonet users also
have to agree to the terms, or is it sufficient for all Fidonet users
to have agreed?

Perry

Perry writes:

> Wouldn't users outside of Fidonet sending mail to Fidonet users also
> have to agree to the terms, or is it sufficient for all Fidonet users
> to have agreed?

If the recipients of mail originating outside of Fidonet agree to disclose
their communications to sysops, there's no ECPA violation.


--Mike