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- From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Sysop checking mail
- Message-ID: <12DEC199200182015@spades.aces.com>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 07:18:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.002018.20761@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec12.002018.20761@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, ctanski@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Tanski) writes...
- #
- #Can somebody tell me when it's legal and when it's illegal for a sysop to
- #check another user's mail? Thanks and please reply directly to
- #ctanski@nyx.cs.du.edu.
-
-
- Chris, judging from this and a previous post I can see
- you have a personal problem with your system administration
- and with the grasp of the idea of Right vs. Privilege.
- Why don't you take it up with your school administration
- and see where you get.
-
- The law does not indicate when anyone may read
- another's mail. While some people try to interpret the
- ECPA (Electronic Communication Privacy Act) to allow this,
- they also tell you that there is no precedent, and that
- any legal interpretation out of court has less weight than
- precedent. This paragraph too is an interpretation and has
- no weight in court. I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one
- on usenet.
-
- I'll repeat the advice I offered you in a previous post
- regarding monitoring your process: While you are exercising
- your PRIVILEGE to use someone else's machine, you are under
- THEIR rules and restrictions. If this offends you, you are
- allowed to own your own system, and if you say the right words
- (and pay the right fees) you can even put it on the network.
-
- #
- #Chris Tanski
-
- Ehud
-
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- Ehud Gavron (EG76)
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