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- From: fetrow@biostat.washington.edu (David Fetrow)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.security.misc
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.010655.19042@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:06:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec18.010655.19042
- References: <26Cu03elc3du00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>> <PCL.92Dec15173300@rhodium.ox.ac.uk> <1992Dec16.211155.19172@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- Organization: Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Univ. of Wash.
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- In article <1992Dec16.211155.19172@klaava.Helsinki.FI> viljanen@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lea Viljanen) writes:
- >In <PCL.92Dec15173300@rhodium.ox.ac.uk> pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland) writes:
- >
- >>In article <26Cu03elc3du00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> grjost@uts.amdahl.com (Garrett Jost) writes:
- >
- >> I'll leave on this note: On many systems, if you mail a letter to a non-
- >> existent user, the message gets sent back, but a copy also goes to
- >> "postmaster". So if you mistype a friend's e-mail address and write
- >> he/she a very personal message, it isn't very personal anymore, is it?
- >
- >>For this very reason, I made very strong requests to our mail guru to
- >>fix it for Postmaster to get only the mail headers. She did, and now
- >>only the originator gets the message body. I, as joint-postmaster
- >>still get to see the headers in case they indicate problems with the
- >>system. Still not ideal privacy, perhaps, but better than the
- >>alternative.
- >
- >This is a two edged sword here. By enhancing the user's privacy
- >you also diminish their chances to get information. Just guess
- >how many internet guides tell people to mail postmaster@site
- >to get information about e-mail addresses. These mail messages
- >get truncated too.
- >
-
- It's possible to have the headers-only show up only for bounced mail so
- regular messages get through to PostMaster. So far (several years) no problem.
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