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- From: eoin@xocolatl.com (John F. Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: UUCP mail processing ethics
- Message-ID: <ekBguB8w165w@xocolatl.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 12:17:49 PST
- References: <is5euB1w165w@1776.COM>
- Reply-To: eoin@xocolatl.com
- Organization: Amethyst Systems, Fremont, CA
- Lines: 33
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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.
-
- Who said anything about reading it?
-
- I personally honor the privacy act law that forbids a sysop to read
- private email and violate the law that requires me to read it all.
-
- <side note: I'm still waiting for a major player to go to court and
- get one or the other (hopefully the read all one) struck down.
-
- -> <<lots of valid points deleted>>
-
- I am not a public service <period>
-
- Besides, the Post Office and TelCo DO log every leg of every piece of
- mail/phone call.
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