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<blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 6173002" data-attributes="member: 13107"><p>(Lots of additional text omitted.)</p><p></p><p>All to my limited understanding:</p><p></p><p>That seems to be a necessary processing of the email to perform a requested function.</p><p></p><p>As an analogue, when an email is sent, the "To" information must be processed to deliver the email to the intended recipient. (Assuming the intended recipient is encoded in the "To" field. If the information were in a different field, the state would apply to accesses to that field.)</p><p></p><p>If an email encodes a request to perform a file download, with the file information being embedded in the content of the email, then retrieving the file identifier is a necessary part of processing the email -- as intended by the email sender.</p><p></p><p>While examples could be crafted to put the necessary processing right in the middle of the fuzzy boundary between necessary and unnecessary accesses, this particular access seems clearly necessary.</p><p></p><p>A similar example would be retrieving a web page and having an intermediary scrape a listing of HREFs from the page to enable the intermediary to more quickly process those links. That is a functional use of the page information necessary for processing the page.</p><p></p><p>Scanning an email to determine what medical condition I might have so to provide that information to a pharmaceutical company seems to be rather on the other side of the fuzzy grey line (of what are acceptable accesses).</p><p></p><p>Thx!</p><p></p><p>TomB</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tomBitonti, post: 6173002, member: 13107"] (Lots of additional text omitted.) All to my limited understanding: That seems to be a necessary processing of the email to perform a requested function. As an analogue, when an email is sent, the "To" information must be processed to deliver the email to the intended recipient. (Assuming the intended recipient is encoded in the "To" field. If the information were in a different field, the state would apply to accesses to that field.) If an email encodes a request to perform a file download, with the file information being embedded in the content of the email, then retrieving the file identifier is a necessary part of processing the email -- as intended by the email sender. While examples could be crafted to put the necessary processing right in the middle of the fuzzy boundary between necessary and unnecessary accesses, this particular access seems clearly necessary. A similar example would be retrieving a web page and having an intermediary scrape a listing of HREFs from the page to enable the intermediary to more quickly process those links. That is a functional use of the page information necessary for processing the page. Scanning an email to determine what medical condition I might have so to provide that information to a pharmaceutical company seems to be rather on the other side of the fuzzy grey line (of what are acceptable accesses). Thx! TomB [/QUOTE]
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