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Subject: Re: How to catch a snoopy sysadmin?
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.161246.22984@news.iastate.edu>
From: john@iastate.edu (Hascall John Paul)
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1991 16:12:46 GMT
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Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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In article <1991Mar31.011850.432@crowfix.uucp> ian@crowfix.uucp (Ian Smith) writes:
}I am posting this for a friend.  His sysadmin is a bit of a snoop,
}and may be reading everyone's email.  Does anyone have advice on
}how to catch him?

   I think the general technique is to put someting so juicy (but false)
that [s]he will just *have* to comment about it in several email messages
but *never* mention it in any other way (have several people in on this).

John