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Are You Being Served? Don't Open That Email!

Posted by timothy on from the imagine-future-spam-subject-lines dept.

An unnamed reader writes: "A federal appeals court has ruled that legal documents can be served by email. Since the party had no physical address, the court ruled that email was a viable option. So, before you open that next email, you might want to consider if it's something you might want to avoid! And it wouldn't be spam..."

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  1. Yucky by 68030 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Guess it's time to get an email address on a non-US server. They can't send a US court jury duty
    request to a non-us email address, can they?

  2. What format? by treat · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An important aspect that has been as of yet unmentioned, is what format were these documents sent in? If they were sent in a proprietary format, is the recipient required by law to purchase software to decode the document?