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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:11:10 -0400 Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote: > Everyone here knows that, regardless of who owns the computing > resources, etc., people who are at work receive personal, sometimes > very private, e-mail at work. If someone else is reviewing your file > attachments, potentially serious problems could result. Such > attachments could conceivably contain wage information, medical > information, job offers, confidential business details, etc. Having > attachments reviewed by persons other than the intended recipient > opens up a whole messy can of law-suit worms. I specifically did not want to open that can of worms. Many companies maintain that they own the computers and the servers, and they have the right to review content, and AFAIK the courts have supported this. And, many companies use filters to automatically reject what they consider "objectionable content". - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P8/F+wA+1cUGHqkRAr1NAJ45Y0vnM1aB2jaHZMJXtIh7TiEFMgCbBxTM Cm25QESELbtLsi6L/IZ653E= =bsFl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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