Is My Email Blocked by my Employer???

From: Sophie Borodin (s_borodin@yahoo.com)
Date: 09/01/02 

From: s_borodin@yahoo.com (Sophie Borodin)
Date: 1 Sep 2002 06:20:19 -0700

Hello,

At my job, we clerical workers have no internet access or even floppy
disk drives on our computers. I suppose this is to prevent workers
from bringing in infected disks and also obviously to prevent
slacking. We do have email, however, and I had subscribed to a couple
of newsletters to get news updates and stuff. I also have emailed
myself a few news articles from home to read during downtime (business
is very slow right now). During the past few days at work, I haven't
received any of these outside emails, and when I tried to send myself
another one I got the "undeliverable mail" message "Server received
Winsock error Connection refused."

Is this the message I'd receive if my outside emails were being
blocked by my employer? Although they certainly have the right to do
that, I think it's a bit paranoid because I didn't get that much email
and what I did get was certainly inocuous. I don't even receive those
silly "joke" emails that many of my coworkers do. But then morale is
rather low here and this is a factory. Workers often complain that it
used to be a much better, "family-type" place to work before they
expanded overseas. Management has used tactics like promising bonuses
and then not giving them, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

It's odd because no one has said anything to me about my email use,
and my boss has expressed his satisfaction with my work.

Any insight would be welcome.

Thanks,
Sophie

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