Bonn Feds Forego Bounce
am 22.09.2007 von http://www.recht.us/amlawCK - Washington. Fighting spam by ignoring rules: The Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology, BSI, advises government agencies to forego bounce messages which the internet-technology rules for receiving mail servers, RFCs 821 and 2821, require. As a result, mistyped addresses in communications to such agencies will not trigger an error message to the sender. A Heise investigation explains that the BSI action represents a response to spam. Spammers can fake email addresses and, through the bounce-notification system, can make recipients of spam believe the government would communicate with them when, in fact, the message originates from an unwanted source. According to Heise, Bonn-based BSI justifies its violation of the SMTP RFCs with the need to fight spam and virus-payloads, to keep government servers from becoming blacklisted on spam-fighting lists, to avoid having the general population confused by spam mails ostensibly originating with the government and to ignore a now-inappropriate standard conceived before the rise of spam. Some agencies accept mail with mistyped addresses, others simply drop it. Load and performance concerns …
Interagency Notification
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Death and inheritance mean a lot of work not only for relatives, administrators and private sector parties, but also for various government agencies. A new rule that according to Handakte blog comes into effect on January 2, 2…
Spyware by Statute
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. Proposals by Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Secretary of the Interior, to restate and expand the jurisdiction of the Federal Crime Agency, Bundeskriminalamt, and the Federal Police, Bundespolizei, trigger heated comments…
Starke Zunahme von Spam-Rückläufern (collateral spam)
spam-abwehren.de / Der Onlinedienst heise berichtet über die daramtische Zunahme von sog. collateral spam, der bei Mißbrauch der E-Mail-Adresse des Empfängers durch Dritte autritt. Ursache des Phänomens ist die Tatsache, dass sich die in Spam-E-…
AG Pforzheim: Keine Mitstörerhaftung des Merchants für seinen Affiliate bei Spam
Kanzlei Dr. Bahr: Recht der Neuen Medien / Das AG Pforzheim (Urt. v. 20.12.2005 - Az: 1 C 284/03) hat entschieden, dass ein Merchant für das rechtswidrige Versenden von Spam-Mails seines Affiliates nicht haftet.Bei dem Rechtsstreit ging es - wieder einmal - um eine Spam-Mail des Affiliate.…
heise: Starke Zunahme von Spam-Rückläufern (collateral spam)
spam-abwehren.de / Der Onlinedienst heise berichtet über die daramtische Zunahme von sog. collateral spam, der bei Mißbrauch der E-Mail-Adresse des Empfängers durch Dritte autritt. Ursache des Phänomens ist die Tatsache, dass sich die in Spam-E-…
Fees for Spam to Lawyer
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington. There is some debate in Germany whether lawyers may demand legal fees for the prosecution of their own claims. Generally, matters of minor significance which would ordinarily not require the engagement of an attorney do not tr…
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