Re: [dmarc-ietf] Change the mailing list protocol, not DMARC.

[Miles Fidelman <[e-mail]>]

Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Martin Rex <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>     Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>     > Hector Santos <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>     >> Let me ask, what if a fedex.com <http://fedex.com> employee use
>     this email domain for
>     >> subscribing to the IETF list?
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>     > Any subsequent problems are irrelevant unless FedEx, the owner of
>     > fedex.com <http://fedex.com> considers them to be relevant.
>     >
>     > That is what folk complaining don't get: you don't have the right to
>     > use your employers email or a public email provider's email any way
>     > you want. The domain name owner makes the rules.
>     >
>     > As Craster insists: My domain, my rules.
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>     Strange concept!
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>     Does your jurisdiction allow your landlord to interfere with
>     postal/snail mail that is delivered from or to your rented appartment?
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> Absent specific government action to protect the tenant, the landlord 
> can abuse them in almost any way they choose. Which is why we have 
> voluminous legislative protections for tenants. There is an entire 
> field of law concerning that.
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Though, in the case of mail, it's Federal law that prevents "mail 
tampering" and other unauthorized interference with US mail.  I'm not 
100% sure, but I expect that an employer might not be legally allowed to 
interfere with a letter addressed to you, at your workplace.

When it comes to email - there are (or at least used to be) the Email 
Privacy Act - which forbid employers from reading your mail, in the 
absence of a clearly stated policy that reserved the right to do so.

Miles Fidelman

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