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[paulcole]

Ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

[tokenizerrr → paulcole]

Right... And your point is? What law would this break? Or are you ignorant of that as well? If so, why even bother replying?

[Cpoll → tokenizerrr]

I think he means that "why would you?" is not good legal advice.

I mean, I agree with you in principle, but I can imagine some backwater judge deciding that Alice Techie was violating the privacy of Bob D. Luddite by accepting emails addressed to bob.d.luddite@alicetechie.com.

[tokenizerrr → Cpoll]

> I think he means that "why would you?" is not good legal advice.

It is when it is literally common practice. Similar to if someone were to ask if they'd get in legal trouble for breathing. Why would you?