Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:3114 comp.mail.uucp:4818 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!sugar!ficc!karl From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Passing proprietary messages through competitors or other sites Message-ID: Date: 24 Jul 90 16:26:22 GMT References: <11613@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 10 Regardless of the security problems, it is a violation of netiquette to do intra-company business over Usenet except by direct link, via uunet or after you have cleared it with all intervening sites. For inter-company business, I suppose using Usenet is OK for making initial contacts and seldom-sent low volume transfers (email to a site asking for more information, like uunet, for example), but not for lots of data, which would be abusive to your neighbors. Usenet mail isn't a valid tool for conducting important business, anyway, since it is unreliable. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "I am here by the will of the people and I won't leave uunet!sugar!karl until I get my raincoat back." -- Metrophage