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Article #118Re: MCI E-mail Snooping
From: exuptr
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:21
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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