No. Its more like, you put a phone in a public space. That phone can only be used to reach you, not anyone else. But you are still bound by laws that apply to payphones, even tough that phone only can be used to call you. (I don't think such laws exist anymore since payphones are effectively dead)
The tricky part is that the lawmakers want to make the laws technology-neutral (regardless of which protocol is used over the wire, the same laws should apply), so same laws apply regardless of If you run TCP, UDP, GRE, whatever over the wire. That’s why, if you receive email, your email server provides a service to the public, in the same way a public website is providing a service to the public. Its still packets over the wire. You need to start thinking on layer 3 (the raw signals over the wire that reach end2end) and not layer 7 (the payload). It would be impossible to write a law that covers everything that can be sent in layer 7 and have different definitions on "public service" depending on what protocol are used. If you have a contact form on your website - of course, you would say it’s a public service. Whats the difference on a SMTP server that only receives mail? -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Slavko via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> Skickat: den 23 oktober 2022 10:23 Till: 'Mailing List' <mailop@mailop.org> Ämne: Re: [mailop] Tangent: Banks and imprint requirements in Germany Dňa 23. októbra 2022 2:40:42 UTC používateľ Sebastian Nielsen via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> napísal: >Telemedia law, requires a basic imprint for all sites that is not only >accessible for personal usage or family usage (if you give one single >person access outside, it requires an imprint, even if that person is a >friend. Only personal and family – which is mother, father, childs is >permitted) > >This also applies to RECEIVING mail on port 25, this requires a website with a >imprint. Do not forget about public phone services. If you have "normal" phone, in means that when anyone on the world will type your phone number -- your phone will ring, thus you are providing public phone service (as you are RECEIVING calls) and must have imprint on web site. In other words, do you have phone without web site? Power off it immediatelly! (Please do not ask me, how to link phone number with web site, as i have no idea) And do not forget how TCP/IP works, after you start any network connection, you must open particular port to public to be able to receive response, and as you will be receiving communication on that port, you start to provide public service and thus you must have website! (Please, ignore the firewalls for now). Thus eg. any facebook/gmail/etc user must have web site with imprint (once again, i have no idea how to link that). If that is what particular law says, then it is wrong, wrong, wrong and once again wrong. Or, it is big misunderstanding of what that law wants to say. Or lobby is preparing environment for future benefits... regards -- Slavko https://www.slavino.sk/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
