Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bria!mike From: mike@bria.UUCP (mike.stefanik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: E-mail Privacy Message-ID: <293@bria.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 91 06:15:09 GMT References: <3651@happym.WA.COM> <8114@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1991Jun14.153835.8709@cc.curtin.edu.au> Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 28 In an article, braun@dri.com (Kral) writes: |In an article, 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)". It is all a matter of degree... in my book, a burglary or rape is something that is a) an act against society at large, b) entails substantial bodily threat to one or more persons. I wouldn't tend to lump a cheating freshman in with the above catagories. IMHO, reading someone elses mail is unethical, tasteless and vulgar. Period. The simple fact that the mail is electronic rather than written on paper is irrelevant. The problem is not with the medium -- it is with the ease of access to the information on the medium by "administrators". Of course, it is easily within the power of developers to write a secure mail system, whereby only the bona fide recipient can read the mail ... -- Mike Stefanik, MGI Inc., Los Angeles -- Opinions stated are never realistic! "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men." -Lincoln