In a message dated 28/08/2000 10:31:23 GMT Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << My question is this: Should I therefore keep this incident to myself, as requested by the sender, or should the police be informed? Of course, there are some exceptions, most famously if the Sec of State signs a warrant for a policeman to intercept a suspect; but in our commercial/public-body world the more interesting are those in the DTI's proposed Lawful Business Practice regulations. >> ---------------------------- I think the answer may be to not address your e-mails to individuals, but to organisations or groups (e.g.) [log in to unmask] Or, in reality (seems a strange way to describe RIPA), just address them to "the whole world" - after all, (potentially) all the world can read your e-mails sent over the Net. Oh, and they might also read your internal e-mails as well if your security is relying on certain commercially-available firewall software. Ian Buckland MD Keep IT Legal Ltd PS If you are not a subscriber to the data protection mailbase, please ignore anything you have read in this e-mail - it is, in fact, encoded and you wouldn't understand the true message. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%