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From: george@gvax
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Subject: Re: Re: Reading other peoples' mail
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Date: Sat, 26-Apr-86 17:42:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 26 17:42:00 1986
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In article <11447@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <1416@ihuxn.UUCP> gadfly@ihuxn.UUCP (Gadfly) writes:
>>
>>You have a moral responsibility, Phil.  The very concept of mail
>>assumes privacy between sender and receiver.  You know that.
>
>Nonsense. UUCP mail has always been unreliable and insecure.  Don't go
>comparing UUCP mail with USmail.  If you don't like the (free) service
>my site provides, don't use it. I didn't ask you to send mail through
>my site. I didn't set it up as a relay site. Relaying happens by default
>and it would be an effort to turn it off.
>
>>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.
>
>You missed my point that as a system admin one can not promise not to.
>But then, you probably don't know anything about running a system
>anyway.

One question: What is "amd"? Do they sell any products or services? If so,
I would like to urge everyone to boycott this company and any other which
employs a system administrator with this type of attitude. It gives the rest
of us a bad name.

George Boyce, george@gvax.cs.cornell.edu