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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: UUCP mail processing ethics
- Message-ID: <isyFuB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 10:41:53 CST
- References: <is5euB1w165w@1776.COM>
- Reply-To: srcsip!tcscs!zeta (Gregory Youngblood)
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
- Lines: 35
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- bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
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- > eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder) writes:
- > > Waffle does not log "pass through" mail.
- > >
- > > Someone posted a patched version of rmail that logged *every* piece of mail
- > > several months ago. But I lost my copy. Does anybody know where to find
- > > it or if it works with 1.65?
- >
- > Does anybody but me think there may be a privacy issue here? It's clearly an
- > ethical principle of UUCP site operation that the sysop will not read messa-
- > ges passing through the site. Does this extend to logging the transmision of
- > a message? I.e., does the sender have the right to expect that the interme-
- > diate site will do *nothing* but affix its postmark and send the message on
- > its way? How would this square with the sysop's arguable right to keep rec-
- > ords in order to detect mail loops, deliberate selection by the sender of in-
- > appropriate transmission paths, etc.? I don't know how I'd answer this or
- > even whether I think the same answer applies in all cases. Is there anything
- > approaching a consensus among the Wafflers on the net?
- >
- I don't think this is what he wanted, though I could be wrong. My impression
- is that he wants to see in his MAIL log all mail that goes through the system.
-
- When Waffle passes mail to a local newsgroup it doesn't show up either. I
- would like to get that rmail if it did that. Not because I want to read
- it all, but because I want to have ADMINinstrative records of just what my
- system resources are being used for.
-
- Greg
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