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From: scotts@qsp.COM (Scott Simpers)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy
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Date: 13 Jun 91 17:40:36 GMT
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In article <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes:
>In <3651@happym.WA.COM> josh@happym.WA.COM (Joshua_Putnam) writes:
>
[...]
>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.
[...]
>root (literally ;-) around further?  Tricky.
>
>Tim
>-- 
No, not tricky.  You either tell the students (and all users) ahead of time
that their e-mail is not private, or you MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.  You are the
system administrator, not the professor.  

When you start to say "It's OK to violate someone's privacy if it was 
accidental", accidents become a lot more common.

Scott Simpers
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