Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:484 comp.unix.admin:2246 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!uunet!drivax!braun From: braun@dri.com (Kral) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: Date: 17 Jun 91 14:24:27 GMT References: <3651@happym.WA.COM> <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991Jun14.153835.8709@cc.curtin.edu.au> Organization: Digital Research Inc Lines: 28 In article <1991Jun14.153835.8709@cc.curtin.edu.au> chooper@cc.curtin.edu.au (Todd Hooper) writes: > >Personally, I totally ignore the 'subject' header of bounced mail. In this >case, I would have ignored it as well. It is the job of academic staff to >uncover plagiarism - not mine. How is this different from: "It is the job of the police to deal with robberies, not mine (so I won't report this obvious burglary I'm seeing to the police)" "It is the job of the police to deal with rape crimes (etc)". >I think a consistent policy of enforcing privacy >is the best defense. If it is known that you might read mail, or interpret the >contents in some way (even if this only involves looking at the subject line) >then you may leave yourself open to more problems (e.g. why didn't you stop >this hacker mailing /etc/passwd to someone?). This is easy to explain in economic terms: does the administration wish to pay for someone to spend all day long looking into other peoples files and monitoring all email? Explain it to them like that, and they will have to agree that it is an unreasonable expectation. -- kral * 408/647-6112 * ...!uunet!drivax!braun * braun@dri.com "Talking trash, touching on truth" -- Micheal Hedges "1-900-I-LUV-YOU"