Re: MCI E-mail Snooping

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From: Wes Morgan
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:05

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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?

I wouldn't think so, but I'd have to read an MCI Mail contract to be sure.
(I don't use any commercial email services, so I'm on foreign soil.....)

>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.

I follow the same pattern......I don't have time to snoop either.

--Wes

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From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
Subject: Re: MCI E-mail Snooping
Keywords: Corporate Computing, September 1992
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