Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!rauscher From: rauscher@remus.rutgers.edu (Rich Rauscher) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Prodigy gateway? Message-ID: Date: 28 Apr 91 21:41:11 GMT References: <_08_CQF@cs.widener.edu> <836@cypress.UUCP> Organization: Center for Discrete Math. and Theor. Comp. Sci. Lines: 36 rbv@cypress.UUCP (Roger Vanderveen) writes: >Call me crazy, but I am thoroughly disgusted when I hear of *any* >system where privacy and censorship of email is allowed. I'm hoping >to see stronger case-law and legislation to protect users' rights >soon. >OK, you're crazy. >Like I'm told by completely-free-speech-advocates when I don't like >the content of TV shows: just change the channel, you don't have to >watch it! >Funny how some people are dead set against government regulation, >until it suits their purposes. Perhaps you don't mind when sysadmin's read your mail; perhaps it wouldn't mean anything to you if were to lose your job because you were caught saying things that were "against the company" in your mail. Further more, how does it possibly "suit my purposes" to have this sort of regulation? As for the TV show analogy, what world are you living in? There is NO similarity. I completely agree about that sort of thing; when people complain about music, movies and such. What I'm talking about is a user's right to privacy on the system, and in fact, does he/she have any? Censoring email is analogous to having your boss listen to your phone line. I suppose that you wouldn't mind if he/she did that, eh? -Rich -- ------------- rauscher@rutgers.edu RPO 5997 PO 5063, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 rauscher@PISCES Shakespeare learns Discrete Math: {backbone site}!rutgers!rauscher (2B | not (2B)) <=> TRUE