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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: E-mail privacy and "vacation" messages
Message-ID: <1991May31.214840.20315@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 21:48:40 GMT
References: <1991May31.211508.7023@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991May31.211508.7023@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle (Sun Software)) writes:
>One of the users on your system(s) goes on vacation, and sets up a "vacation"
>... offensive message example
>
>Someone receives this "vacation" message and contacts Joe User's boss about it.
>Joe User's boss contacts you and demands that you change the .vacation.msg file
>Food for thought:
>- Do you do what Joe User's boss demands?  Do you change it, and then deny

 I wouldn't touch his .vacation.msg file.  I would just create an alias in
the system aliases file which effectively bypassed the vacation message.
Depending on circumstances, I might also make some changes to /etc/passwd,
but that is a different story.


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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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