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Article #656Re: E-mail Privacy
From: Scott Simpers
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 17:40
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1991 17:40
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In article <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes: >In <3651@happym.WA.COM> josh@happym.WA.COM (Joshua_Putnam) writes: > [...] >Anyway, as a result I saw a message between two students that >was clearly showing them to be cheating in an assigment by exchanging >pieces of code. I only saw the subject line, but it was enough. [...] >root (literally ;-) around further? Tricky. > >Tim >-- No, not tricky. You either tell the students (and all users) ahead of time that their e-mail is not private, or you MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. You are the system administrator, not the professor. When you start to say "It's OK to violate someone's privacy if it was accidental", accidents become a lot more common. Scott Simpers Quality Software Products voice: (213)410-0303 5711 W Slauson Avenue Suite 240 fax: (213)410-0124 Culver City, CA 90230 ...uunet!qsp!scotts
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!maserati!scotts From: scotts@qsp.COM (Scott Simpers) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <2539@maserati.qsp.UUCP> Date: 13 Jun 91 17:40:36 GMT References: <50318@muvms3.bitnet> <3651@happym.WA.COM> <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Sender: news@qsp.COM Followup-To: comp.admin.policy Organization: Quality Software Products, LA, CA Lines: 23