Remailers aren't for falsifying email transmission information -
they're for concealing and deleting that information.
You're not pretending that your mail originates at foo.remailer.net,
you're just not telling anybody how it got there.
Even a nymserver doesn't do that - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
isn't claiming to really live inside that mail server,
just to have an address on that server.
The features in Netscape and Eudora that let you pick your From: info
might count, and of course Fakemail and similar programs definitely would.
A more interesting issue is how this applies to AOL screen names,
and also how involved AOL was in the creation of the law,
since they're largely a Virginia-based company.
At 11:39 PM 03/28/2001 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>See also:
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-01862.html
>
>http://www.spamlaws.com/state/va.html
>§ 18.2-152.4. Computer trespass; penalty. B. It shall be unlawful for any
>person knowingly to sell, give or otherwise distribute or possess with the
>intent to sell, give or distribute software which (i) is primarily
>designed or produced for the purpose of facilitating or enabling the
>falsification of electronic mail transmission information or other routing
>information; (ii) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use
>other than to facilitate or enable the falsification of electronic mail
>transmission information or other routing information; or (iii) is
>marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with
>that person's knowledge for use in facilitating or enabling the
>falsification of electronic mail transmission information or other routing
>information.
>
>
