Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 01:45:35PM -0700, Sasha Pachev wrote: >> >> I would recommend filtering your own sense of humor. What some people >> think is funny, others do not, and it can cause problems. > > So you're saying that I have to filter my sense of humor for > eavesdroppers in OIT? Seriously?
One innocent question that I think may be obvious to most on the list, but not to me. Where exactly did the eavesdrop take place in the chain of the email? Basically, which email did OIT read? (I assume you were on-campus when you penned "The Joke", if not, please correct me) A) your outgoing mail as it went from your on-campus laptop mail client to mcnabbs.org server B) your incoming mail as it passed from mcnabbs.org to the CS department mailing list With regards to the discussion, I think there should be a distinguished difference in the expectations of privacy involved in both A and B. If I'm reading the scenario right, your joke message passed through BOTH A & B, but there are certainly countless messages moving through BYU's tubes that fall in one case or the other, but not both. My personal opinion is that snooping case A is pretty big-brotherish, but snooping case B is acceptable to me. Brian -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
