On Tuesday, March 14, 2000 2:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Disclaimer: Elron Software, my employer, is a content filtering company
> Marcus J. Ranum said:
> >terminate the top 2 employees who violate your
> >acceptable use policy. Make sure everyone knows that's why
> >they were terminated. The problem will stop pretty fast, I
> >guarantee it.
[edit]
> If you want to avoid legal troubles:
>
> 1) Put an Internet Usage Policy in place (aka an Acceptable Usage
> Policy)
> 2) Make sure every employee/student is aware of it, you might go so
> far as having them sign an acknowledgement
> This is clearly something for the HR dept. if you're in a
> corporate setting, Marcus is right about that
> 3) Inform them if you are going to monitor to enforce the policy
> (whether it's real time monitoring or logfile reviews)
> 4) Enforce the policy consistently, whatever the policy is, (you
can't
> single out 'worst offenders')
Good point, the enforcement has to be consistent or you risk a lawsuit. But
here is a question: can you start enforcement with the worst offenders? How
about if you monthly post ALL the offenders, sorted by volume? If you find
a bunch of people doing something wrong, can you start with the worst
offender as long as you have the intention of doing the entire list?
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