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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Sysop checking mail
- Message-ID: <01GSGYSTZF8Y006MJF@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 01:40:21 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
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- "Peter J. MASON", with a FROM address of <munnari.oz.au!metro!usage!sdipl!
- sdipl1.sdi.oz.au!petem@UUNET.UU.NET>, writes:
-
- >ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig) writes:
- >>> # Can somebody tell me when it's legal and when it's illegal for a sysop to
- >>> # check another user's mail?
- >>> [...]
- >>>
- >
- >Is it relevent that only "mail" is being considered in this thread? Is the
- >situation different if a user saves mail items in a more general purpose file,
- >to be later perhaps read by a sysop? Seems to me that we really should be
- >talking about sysops peering over the fence generally, rather than merely at
- >mail items.
-
- Could you please move this question to a more appropriate group? See any
- list-of-lists (available from your favorite local listserv) for mailing lists
- dealing with privacy issues.
-
- The newsgroup comp.privacy, or the mailing lists ETHICS-L@MARIST.BITNET or
- Computers and Academic Freedom at LISTSERV@EFF.ORG, would be good candidates.
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
-