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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. >>

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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

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