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Article #120Re: Article on E-mail Privacy/Snooping
From: Joe Trott
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:16
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:16
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Please note that in my original somewhat harsh post I _did_ say "unless a contract states otherwise..." There are all kinds of contracts, implicit as well as explicit. These also include questions of ownership of the message(s). I can't see how the reading of someone's email while an account is being deleted could possibly be considered "inadvertant". Does this mean that deleting an account _causes_ its remaining/existing messages to be read? If so, then 1) This was probably understood when the service was initiated, and so may be legit, but 2) how can this be "necessary" when an account is removed? I find it inconceivable that many people would subscribe to a supposedly private email service if they *knew* that any messages [still] in their accounts could be read when the accounts were removed. I'm glad we're in agreement that Wang should get his just comeuppance; I hope we can agree that the employee has something coming too, whether prosecution for rights violation(s) or discharge for incompetence. -JTT
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Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,misc.legal.computing 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: <1992Sep11.161638.3832@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> <1992Sep10.190922.900@dcatlas.dot.gov> <BuDuGM.EIB@rice.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:16:38 GMT Lines: 22