Uri Bruck wrote: > This is a matter of who owns the resources. It's no different than posing > limitations on private phone calls on the office phones, or on company > time. When an employer provides an employee with an email account due to > the fact that this person is an employee, then this email account is > intended to be used for work, and belongs to the employer.
Originaly it did not. In the Electronic Communications Prvacy Act (ECPA) of 1988, the wiretaping laws were specificly exempted for "communications providers". This was intended to be phone companies, what became ISPs, etc. The courts had a different idea and ruled that it included anyone who pays the bill. So in the U.S. your employer can legaly tap your phone, read your email, etc, in fact mine does. It's a well stated company policy. Geoff. -- The information transmitted is intended to be ignored by the person or entity in front of whom it appeared and may contain useless and/or misleading material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other abuse of, or taking of any action of any kind because of this misinformation by persons, animals, aliens, or cosmic entities other than the unintended recipient is bad karma. If you received this error, please send you paycheck to the sender and delete everything on the hard drive of your computer. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
