RE: Email monitoring

[sgarcia bak rr com]

In <DKEFLHLGDKFKJMMFPDBFKEOLCBAA plee mcmillansmith com>, on
11/07/2002 at 01:22 PM,
   "Paul Lee" <plee mcmillansmith com> said:

>A note on the legal side of the monitoring ... all employees know that
>the mail is monitored and have signed computer use forms to this extent.
>It is done not necessarily to police our employees but rather to maintain
>security and protect our system. For example, in the past, spammers found
>our system and used it as a relay. This problem has been resolved and
>countermeasures were put in place, but monitoring all messages is a VERY
>easy to spot a misuse of this magnitude.

Another legal aspect of this sort of monitoring:

Your liability may increase simply because you can't *ever* claim you
didn't know something was happening.  And if something ever slipped past
the admin (and some things with big footprints might not necessarily jump
out at you on first reading) you could be in trouble.

I'd hate to be the admin that had to read all that.  Hope your staff is
small.

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