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Re: Article on E-mail Privacy/Snooping

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From: Joe Trott
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:09
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jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria) writes:

>Apparently when Wang resigned, his MCI Mail account was closed.  According
>to the paper, MCI Mail saves messages for five days and then deleted. All
>these came to light when a staff worker was closing the account and "looked"
>into Wang's account and was suprised on the contents of the messages.  This
>started court orders to search offices/residences on both parties. 

>Question:  did the staff worker have the RIGHT to read Wang's email?
>When I close accounts, I tar everything to tape and then remove everything.
>I don't have time to read user's files or email that is still in queue.

No, he did *not* have the right (unless a prior contract specified otherwise)
to view Wang's email.  He should be prosecuted, found as guilty as he is,
and treated as harshly as possible.  That said, the evidence that Wang was
involved in crimes of his own *exists*.  It cannot be ignored.  Two wrongs
do not make a right.  Wang should also be tried, convicted, and probably
shot ("if you don't like the consequences of your actions...").

-JTT
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Article on E-mail Privacy/Snooping
Message-ID: <1992Sep10.190922.900@dcatlas.dot.gov>
Keywords: Corporate Computing, September 1992
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
References: <1992Sep9.121142.4840@ms.uky.edu> <1992Sep9.231718.1863@PacBell.COM>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:09:22 GMT
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