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From: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Bring back net.bizarre!
Message-ID: <154@molihp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 18:41:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: molihp.154
Posted: Fri May  2 18:41:00 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 12:01:25 EDT
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Reply-To: robt@molihp.UUCP (Robert L Thurlow)
Organization: Moli Energy, Vancouver, B.C., CANADA
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Summary: 

In article <735@mmm.UUCP> bngofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) writes:
>
>	The sysop who originally spurred this conversation argued that he
>wanted to know what his phone bills were paying for, and used that as a
>justification for "opening" others' mail. By the same token, should he
>be able to eavesdrop on phone conversations? I think the same set of 
>arguments apply. If he wants to know what he's paying for when he pays
>his phone bills, I'll tell him - PRIVATE MESSAGES. And that's all he has
>a right to know. 
>

  If I use my employer's  telephone for *MY* private use, I can't expect
that he will always be happy with it,  especially if it interferes  with
other uses of the phone or of my time, or if it causes  other  problems.
I also do not  expect to have my  privacy  guaranteed  or to have  total
freedom of  behaviour  when someone else is paying the bills.  It is the
same as using any other  resource :  using the printer  may be okay if I
want a cheap  calendar,  but  printing  resumes is not a great  survival
habit.  I  expect  my  employer  to be  reasonable,  but  there  are  no
guarantees.

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