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From: mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: Summary: Spy mail
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.125442.28160@engin.umich.edu>
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Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@ais.org>
Organization: Artificial Intelligence Society
References: <1991Apr14.103458.15364@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> <1991Apr15.161643.5558@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 12:54:42 GMT

In article <1991Apr15.161643.5558@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
:Thanks for all input a received to my query. As it may be of general 
:interest for system administrators, I post a summary of the received
:answers:

Just as a point: unless a sysadmin tells a user in advance that the user's
account and mail may be snooped at without notice, I see such action
as ethically WRONG, and so would a lot of others.  I would encrypt
anything I deemed truly confidential in E-Mail, but many people aren't
that protective.  (Then again, many people shouldn't read over my
shoulder -- it annoys me to no end.  You know who you are. :) )
Unless someone cites the Federal Communications Act of 1986 (or some
equivalent non-U.S. law) or system policy in advance, mail is
generally presumed to be confidential.



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Mike O'Connor (mjo@ais.org)
