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From: mrl@oddjob.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
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Date: Thu, 1-May-86 01:31:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  1 01:31:42 1986
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Reply-To: mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
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In article <2744@pixar.pixar> good@pixar.UUCP ("Pravda nyet isvetsia, Isvetsia nyet pravda") writes:
>
>	Assuming that uucp mail is private seems extremely naive to me.  Not
>that I, as a sysadmin, go deliberately poking through mail.  I don't think
>that administrators *should* read mail unless they have to (for any of the
>reasons already mentioned in this debate).  But I never send anything
>confidential via uucp, and I hope nobody else does.  It's got to be just
>asking for trouble.

I just came across this fortune which seems unusually appropriate
for this discussion, and exhibits a useful analogy:

    Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American:
	    All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
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