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In article <BuFKv7.FBJ@rice.edu> jaw@owlnet.rice.edu (Joseph A. Watters) writes:
>
>The MCI worker is part of the service provider and is explicitly exempt
>from the prohibitions on reading another person's stored electronic
>communications.  

I was under the impression that these prohibitions were only subject
to exemption *in the performance of one's official duties*.  The most
common example of this "performance-based" exemption is the well-known
fact that the phone company may 'listen' to a conversation if they are
checking line quality.  Another example, also based in the telephone
industry, is the fact that a PhoneCo Customer Service person may listen
in on your conversation with an operator (to evaluate the quality of
service rendered by said operator).

If there is some account removal procedure that requires the examination
of electronic mail for a *personal* account, I'd like to hear more about 
it!

If Borland was paying for the MCI Mail account, I could understand a
review of the electronic mail BY BORLAND; that would be a matter of
corporate policy for Borland.

I cannot envision a situation in which the "common carrier", MCI, would
have the need or the contractual right to read its customers' email.

--Wes

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