Re: Is My Email Blocked by my Employer???

From: Gary Heston (gheston@hiwaay.net)
Date: 09/01/02 

From: gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston)
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 20:37:36 -0000

In article <ptpc9.220927$Aw4.9549675@bin2.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>,
Don K <dk@dont_bother_me.com> wrote:
  [ ... ]
>The IS people are probably totally independent from your boss. They
>monitor and control computer usage because it is easy for them to do.
>They will report to top management that a lot of people are wasting
>time and that you are one of them. Your boss may eventually be told
>to get rid of X number of people. At that time you will want to appear
>to be more than satisfactory to your boss.

Actually, monitoring isn't that easy. It also takes a lot of time and
some pricey software, which can be a pain to deal with.

Being a network administrator, I get to deal with this stuff. Our
experience has been that we can't block sites like Hotmail, Yahoo,
Juno, and similar places because there are too many real emails
originating from those sites. We currently filter on a few criteria,
although we can't use the standard provided spam filter (blocked too
many real messages, including some important ones).

In reality, we have better things to do with our time than read a
persons' email, unless we have specific reason to watch a person.
Last time I checked, we were passing about 25,000 emails/day through
our server. About half of that is spam or invalid addresses, which
are blocked with a separate computer running filter software. I can't
read 250/day, much less 25,000, and have better things to do anyway.

Gary 

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Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 

"You can't put the tube back in the toothpaste." Rep. Steve LaTourette,
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