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From: gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.mail
Subject: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
Message-ID: <1416@ihuxn.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Apr-86 09:55:03 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 22 09:55:03 1986
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> Even if csuh only connects to lll-crg, you have no right to tell other
> sites what to do with your mail. I don't make a practice of reading
> mail going through my site but that's no promise I won't. UUCP is
> always leaving little turds around for me to clean up. Sometimes I
> look at them to figure out what they are. And my users have access
> also. (I run uucp 777 mode, to keep things simple.)
> 
> If you don't like it, set up your own connection. I have no
> responsibility for your traffic.
> -- 
>  Phil Ngai +1 408 749 5720

You have a moral responsibility, Phil.  The very concept of mail
assumes privacy between sender and receiver.  You know that.
I can't stop you from reading my mail (if it happens to blow by
in the night), but if you do snoop you are doing something wrong.
I'm glad you "don't make a practice" of reading mail.  You should,
as a generic upstanding human being, promise that you won't.

I'm flabbergasted at how many system administrators feel it's 
permissible to snoop simply because they own or maintain the computer
resource.  It's sad what happens when people are well trained but
poorly educated.  Get your heads out of your respective tty's and
into some Maimonides, Aquinas, Aristotle, or Kant.  Or even Mill.
-- 
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