From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-08-07 13:31:11 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:31:11 +0800
From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:31:11 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Corporate e-mail policy
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I used to work for a company which had a surprisingly liberal policy about e-mail.The gist of it was:
"Private e-mail will not be read by anyone other than the recipient. The
only exceptions to this are:
1) Systems personnel may examine mail messages to determine if the mail
system is working correctly; [e.g., checking mail logs against users'
mailbox contents to verify delivery]
2) [basically said e-mail would be treated like any other system files
in the event of a criminal investigation, etc.]"
The policy specifically required authorization from the line VP for either of these actions, and reinforced that the systems people were to treat the e-mail as administratively confidential data.
The only time I heard of anyone even asking for e-mail was when a project manager wanted a copy of a message that a sponsor sent to one of his subordinates, who was on vacation. The systems folks cited the policy, the line VP backed them up, and the manager went away empty-handed. (He wound up calling the subordinate at her hotel and browbeating her into authorizing the computer center folks to forward a copy of the message to the manager. But that's another story.)
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