Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:432 comp.unix.admin:2207 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!talgras!david From: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <93@talgras.UUCP> Date: 13 Jun 91 14:13:50 GMT References: <50318@muvms3.bitnet> <3651@happym.WA.COM> <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Reply-To: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes) Followup-To: comp.admin.policy Distribution: usa Organization: Tallgrass Technologies Inc. Lines: 39 In article <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes: > >Sometimes the mail system, sendmail in our case, fails due to an >error of some sort. It's quite rare but as our postmaster I >redirect failed headers to me so I can attempt to prevent >similar failures and notify senders/intended recipients >of the problem and perhaps the cause. > >Anyway, as a result I saw a message between two students that >was clearly showing them to be cheating in an assigment by exchanging >pieces of code. I only saw the subject line, but it was enough. >Do you turn a blind eye? Do you let the offenders gain an unfair >advantage? It's not at all clear cut. We have correlation software I would turn them in to their professors. I would also tell the professors that E-MAIL can be forged so this could be from someone else with an ax to grind. If you worked for company x and while a co-worker was on vacation you went to get something out of his/her desk. Something that you needed to conduct regular bussines. If you found a set of ledgers that indicated that the person was cheating the company or the companys clients would you put the ledgers back and tell them that that wasn't a nice thing to do or would you present the ledger to the company officals and let them deal with the person. As a system admin it isn't your job to snoop through users mail to find out if they are cheating. However, when in the course of doing your duties, ie fixing mail headers, you find something that clearly shows that students are cheating then you should act on it. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- David Hoopes Tallgrass Technologies Inc. uunet!talgras!david 11100 W 82nd St. Voice: (913) 492-6002 x323 Lenexa, Ks 66214