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Re: MCI E-mail Snooping

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From: exuptr
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:21
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In article <1992Sep10.170535.1335@ms.uky.edu> morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
>From: morgan@ms.uky.edu (Wes Morgan)
>Subject: Re: MCI E-mail Snooping
>Keywords: Corporate Computing, September 1992
>Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:05:35 GMT

>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?

Who paid for it?  Was it really a "personal" account, or was it a business 
account.

>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.....)

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Subject: Re: MCI E-mail Snooping
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