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From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy
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Date: 30 May 91 21:52:28 GMT
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In article <1991May30.203700.25025@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>None of the responses to this question seem to consider the fact that
>the email which he was asked to retrieve was sent by the same person
>who wants it. If the sender had made a carbon copy, this wouldn't be
>necessary. But since the sender wrote the memo in the first place, is
>this really a violation of privacy in the sense that the sender
>would learn something he didn't already know?

I think so -- since the sender didn't bother to make himself a CC, he's
really just out of luck.  If I fax something to you as my employee and
throw away the original, can I rummage through your office when you are
fired to get a copy of the fax?  no.  How is strolling through the 
backup tapes any different?
-- 
Rodney