Well, shucks, I had no idea I might be somehow making any kind of innuendo or
whatever, but this here "administrator" named "scanmail" has apparently seen
fit to "quarantine" my (innocent) message on the basis of "Sexual
Discrimination".
I'm tossing this into the ring here in a simple spirit of
consciousness-raising -- programmatic semantic interpretation of human
communication, such as this, both illustrates and raises a host of
technological and social issues.
Its ever more obvious to me that when evaluating an employer, a key
consideration (for myself that is) is the social aspects of their security
policies and practices. I would not want to have my communications filtered in
such a fashion (or at all).
I'm a newbie to this particular list, and I suspect that this list isn't
necessarily the appropriate place to discuss the social implications of this
sort of technology. Does anyone know of a more appropriate list for that?
thanks,
JeffH
ps: there are "newsletter" lists, as opposed to discussion lists, where the
author(s) expound on such topics, i.e. on the social implications of networked
computing and such. A prominent (imho) one is the Red Rock Eater News Service,
an archive of which is available here..
http://commons.somewhere.com/rre/
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From: System Attendant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ScanMail Message: To Sender, sensitive content found and action t
aken.
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:55:51 -0500
Trend SMEX Content Filter has detected sensitive content.
Place = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ; ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sender = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject = Re: SSL and other protocol usage
Delivery Time = December 13, 2000 (Wednesday) 22:55:47
Policy = Sexual Discrimination
Action on this mail = Quarantine message
Warning message from administrator:
Notice: A message you sent appears to have violated GE Financial Assurance
email policies for inappropriate language or content and may not have been
received by the recipient.
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Subject: Re: SSL and other protocol usage
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 20:53:28 -0800
you should perhaps take a look at..
Stunnel -- Universal SSL Wrapper
http://www.stunnel.org/
JeffH
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