Re: Arguments wanted....

[Dave Morton <[e-mail]>]

>=> This sounds very restrictive, I cannot imagine this surviving a challenge
>=> in court, but then CH is, well, different perhaps.....
>
>Such restrictions would be forbiden if CH was a member of the European
>Community. Electronic mail is a value added telecommunication service, and
>thus fall under strict "free trade, no regulations allowed whatsoever" rules.
>In fact, it may well be the case that some of the treaties between CH and the
>EC result in importing this free trade enforcement -- your lawyers could check.

Yes - that was my understanding as well, esp. now in Germany since the
Post Reform I of 1992 which was brought about by the EC and it's ONP provisions.

>But there is yet a much better answer. As the PRMD/ADMD business is strictly
>related to one transmission standard, i.e. X.400, the correct answer is to
>drop X.400 and just use TCP-IP, SMTP, RFC-822 and MIME!
>
>Christian Huitema

Yes - Christian, I didn't want to mention this, but you're correct of course :-
In fact such silly restrictions will probably cause the death of X.400
anyways so who cares.

Dave