Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!qiclab!leonard
From: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Privacy of computer files...
Message-ID: <1831@qiclab.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 23:59:33 GMT
Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Qic Laboratories, Portland, Oregon.
Lines: 18

(Mark Levine) writes:
<[Thanks James]
<
<I received a reply which rings true, that the law I was thinking of is
<the Federal Computer Privacy Act of 1986.  The writer suggested it allows
<an admin to look at failing mail "as necessary" (but also said he needs to
<read it some more).  Still not sure what is says about the larger question
<(outside mail) -- I would ask anyone with access to the text of the Act to
<post the significant parts.  If I can find our legal department, I intend
<to ask them for guidelines.

Check out the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 as well. It
has sections dealing with e-mail and inter-computer communications.
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]		...!tektronix!reed!qiclab!leonard
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."