Re: Companies are going to like IM2000

A private comment on Jonathan's post that he suggested be forwarded to
im2000 mailing list

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> Legal Eaglet
> Rules are made to be grok'em
>
> The other advantage of IM2000 is that it aligns itself with certain anti-spam
> legislation. I'd refer you to the recent Australian Anti-Spam bill (if you want
> to enter a somnolent sleep(IM2000) state see
> http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sa200366/) which basically
> stipulates that if you *AUTHORISE* the sending of the message, it is equivalent
> to actually sending the message (and then goes on amusingly grisly outcomes for
> aiding/abetting/procuring any non-designated commercial electronic messages).
>
> IM2000 aligns itself quite nicely with this (along with consent framework for
> recipients) as the end-points are something which can be objectively measured
> (plus you'd get the lawyers all up against wall routing .. err ... rooting for
> deployment just to obfuscate corporate misfeasance a little longer).
>
> LL
>
>>The answer is, of course, that this is implicit in the very nature of
>>IM2000, since outgoing mail will sit on the company's message store
>>and all that has to be done is either (a) ensure that the message
>>store software's idea of "deleting" a message is the mere removal of
>>it to an archival area, or (b) disable message deletion entirely.