Swiss ISPs Must Archive E-mail For 6 Months

Posted by timothy on Monday May 13, 2002 @06:44AM from the new-meaning-for-swiss-account dept.

the_danielsan writes: "I first thought this (this ain't yellow press) would be a joke, but apparently swiss ISPs are now enforced to monitor all outgoing mails up to a period of 6 month - at their own cost! sunrise, a larger ISP, speaks of 50,000 to 100,000 CHF (that's about 31,405 to 62,810 USD according to my currency calculator) to update their systems. heise Newsticker has the same story running (both German). I can't believe this." For non-German readers, babelfish does a decent job with these articles.

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Just the headers. by jakobk · 2002-05-13 06:53 · Score: 3, Informative

Well, they do not want to archive the contents, just the header data.
Re:Curse of Socialism by Zarquon · 2002-05-13 11:50 · Score: 3, Insightful

Money.. chocolate.. information on who owns what money.. Chocolate.. Some great skiing in the Alps.. Chocolate.. Getting rid of it's reputation as pretty much the only European nation to actually pull off being neutral for the last century.. Chocolate.

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