> ...we as a group do care about how the data we provide our users is > used. The best we can do is to make it as accurate as possible, and > be available to help those who need a professional opinion.
Your company makes spyware--no offense intended, and I agree with your stance that you guys are not responsible for the uses made of your tool and see Cybersitter's reasonable application in some home and business environments. Declude, by design, is the opposite of spyware, as it is intended to protect end users from UNsolicited, UNwanted Internet-based communication, and in turn from the consequences of such communication being presumed as solicited. Declude-tagged data, *as* suspected spam, CANNOT be used to implicate an end user. It's not an ethics issue; you just can't do it. It's insane, backward, punishably ignorant to even contemplate it. It's like...using a history of porn surfing as proof that someone isn't into porn! > I am willing to bet that the employee in question was not fired > solely based on information provided by an anti-spam program...It is > quite possible he just needed the evidence. Porn messages held as suspected spam are not evidence of a porn habit, even in relative quantity. Really, now: if they really need more evidence, track the *outgoing* mail in combination with their existing web monitoring (though this would be unlikely to trap much), and track often non-suspect "plain brown wrapper" e-mail receipts for credit card transactions. How could web monitoring over a month or more *possibly* be insufficient evidence, anyway? -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
