From: Joe Turner <turner@TeleCheck.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 02:45:50 +0800
To: WOOD@VAX2.ROCKHURST.EDU
Subject: Re: e-mail, business and privicy
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Message-ID: <9510271741.AA04695@mercury.telecheck.com>
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> 
> An old subject, but could someone please give me a pointer 
> to the legalities of reading other peoples mail in the working 
> environment.
> 
> Many thanks,	
> 

Unless otherwise notified, I believe you have a right to 
privacy.  Some companies are up front and make you sign a
piece of paper to the effect that when your at work... 

Here at TeleCheck, we had to sign a piece of paper that promised
that we wouldn't read each *other's* mail, after a nasty incident
in which involved an employee and forged mail ardently confessing
is new found homosexuality (boy was be suprised...).  But that
was a long time ago, which predates the notices we had to sign.

The point was clear.  Don't read your supervisor's mail or you will be
terminated (as an employee was). 

-- 
Joe N. Turner		Telecheck International
turner@telecheck.com    5251 Westheimer, PO BOX 4659, Houston, TX 77210-4659
			(800) 888-4922  *   (713) 439-6597