Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!karl_kleinpaste From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Stoll and privacy issues Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 90 14:03:30 GMT References: <1990Oct5.022152.20894@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: Ohio State Computer Science Lines: 12 gl8f@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU writes: the systems people read their mail frequently. That is, their mail wasn't read if they were suspected, but mail was randomly sampled. Is this common? If my institution had such a policy I wouldn't like it one bit. Around here, mail is private, period. Anything I see inadvertently by way of mailer-daemon bounces etc ad nauseum is still private. I don't poke at anyone's mailbox without their permission, modulo genuine evidence that someone is abusing the systems and that traces of the behavior would be found there. That's happened twice, maybe.