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From: dave@viper.UUCP (David Messer)
Newsgroups: soc.motss,news.misc
Subject: Re: News and Motss
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 09:53:28 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 09:53:28 1987
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Organization: Lynx Data Systems, Minneapolis, MN
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In article <2990@ihlpg.ATT.COM> ejbjr@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Branagan) writes:
 >
 >Anyone at a large (or even small) technology-oriented company should
 >expect all network transmissions - netnews and email - to be monitored.
 >
 >For articles posted to a public news network there is no basis to complain
 >about this behavior - they are as much a part of the public as the poster.
 >
 >For private, directed email this seems to be a violation of privacy,
 >but it is very legal (after all it is their machine your using) and very
 >necessary in this dog-eat-dog corporate world - its far better than the
 >alternative of NO email network and no netnews.

There was a bill introduced last year to make reading of private
mail illegal.  I don't know if it passed, but it should have.
Companies have no more moral right to read private mail than they
do to bug telephones.
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