[FireBeyond]

1) Possession is 9 points of the law was the original quote - it's just been bastardized over the years.

2) If it's "okay" for your machine to receive and keep the misdirected email message, how is it "not okay" for someone sending a correctly directed message asking your MUA to remove the message? Your MUA allows the behavior; you allow it by use of that MUA; no access control mechanisms were broached. To look at it literally, all email is "reaching into your machine to suit the sender".

[dragonwriter]

> Possession is 9 points of the law was the original quote - it's just been bastardized over the years.

Its not that much of a bastardization, as a modernization -- the original seems to have been "possession is 11 points in the law (and they say there are but 12)", which was decimalized from 11 and 12 to 9 and 10, sometimes used with the "9" alone and the last part omitted, and later simplified to 9/10. The original sense of the statement is preserved, which is why I wouldn't call it a "bastardization".

[JoeAltmaier]

Same way its ok to give me something, but not to take something from me without permission.