Re: Is My Email Blocked by my Employer???
From: Me (srhi@comcast.net)Date: 09/02/02
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From: Me <srhi@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 00:15:04 GMT
In article <94e4806.0209010520.222fe6f2@posting.google.com>,
s_borodin@yahoo.com (Sophie Borodin) wrote:
> 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.
The problem could either be intentional or unintentional.
Only one way is available to find out for sure. Ask your
employer's email administrator what's happening.
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