Re: Proposed EU Directive on Electronic Commerce
- Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:03:21 +0100
First of all there's a wild variety of user mailers,
lots of which don't allow users to add X- header lines.
Go tell it the developers of those mailers.
So perhaps it would simply become illegal to send
``commercial communications'' using those mailers.
No. You're free to use your preferred application.
As an analogy: it's already illegal to drive on
the road with motor vehicles lacking certain
features - why shouldn't similar logic apply here?
Because the world is a bit larger than the road(s)
you're driving on: you may not be allowed to drive
with a car that lacks head lights, yet you might
well be allowed to drive that car in Northern
Nowhere; at your own risk, of course... ;-)
If `"UCE" in the subject line' were adopted as a standard
Subject lines are there to convey short information
about the contents of a message between humans. The
contents of a Subject line are part of inter-human
communication and therefore subject to the principle
of freedom of speech. Standards therefore can never
impose restrictions. Only laws can, and even then
only to a very limited extent.
Piet
