Spake Steven Buehler on Thursday, July 01, 2004 at 07:04AM -0700:
> Providers Free to Monitor Communications
>
> By Jonathan Krim
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Thursday, July 1, 2004; Page E01
[snip]
> The court ruled that because e-mail is stored, even momentarily, in computers
> before it is routed to recipients, it is not subject to laws that apply to
> eavesdropping of telephone calls, which are continuously in transit. As a
> result, the majority said, companies or employers that own the computers are
> free to intercept messages before they are received by customers.
That's the lamest excuse I've ever heard.
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