E-mail Privacy

[Brian Rice]

In article <1991May24.151412.28103 at ms.uky.edu> sean at ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Something just doesn't smell right when an employer posts a notice
>saying that all email may be read by the administration. It seems a
>cheap way to avoid lawsuits, rather than a more difficult--but better
>for the employees--policy that email is private.
>
>I won't work for a company that doesn't value their employees enough
>to let their email stay private.
>
And as an administrator I must point out the occasion inevitability that
I must peruse the header of your returned mail in order to debug fouled
up addressing or, (GOD FORBID!) some mistake I may have made in setting
up the connections.

The fact is, e-mail is not intended to be used for confidential
documentation (at this point) and I think it is compassionate
of a company to point that fact out to less sophisticated users.
Please don't try to equate something as trivial as e-mail management
with a something as non-trivial as a company's value on an employee.

Brian C. Rice
Systems/Network Administrator
Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc. 
2630 Walsh Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95051
(408) 748-6333 | bri at kpc.com | ..!uunet!kpc!bri