E.U. Employers To Be Held Liable For Porn Spam?

Cowards Anonymous writes "Yahoo News has a story about a study of Europe's new anti-spam legislation. The overly broad wording of the legislation, according to the study, could allow employees to sue employers for not doing enough to stop porn spam. Businesses could be sued by their workers for allowing a hostile work environment. The author of the study advises companies running email servers to use filtering technology, and warn employees about the sometimes sleazy content of spam."

Comments

actually...

[tuxette]

...in most cases, mail sent to you at your place of employement is considered business mail (i.e. the secretary or your boss can open it) unless it is specifically marked private or confidential.

Re:SMTP must die!

[cperciva]

Anyone see a downside to this besides the annoying move to such a system?

Yes. It wouldn't work.

I send mail from several different places, with several different return addresses. The mail server for foo.com doesn't know anything about most of the email which I (legitimately) send with my @foo.com return address.

Also, there's a huge amount of mangling which happens to email messages. Headers are added, removed, or modified; line breaks are changed; some characters or strings are escaped... you'll have trouble finding something you can rely upon for your hashing.