Re: Packet sniffing problems

From: Thor Kottelin (thor_at_anta.net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:08:21 +0300

sean weintz wrote:
>
> Thor Kottelin wrote:

> > sean weintz wrote:

> >>all our employees here have to sign an agreement stating they will not use the system for personal use. If they do not send personal emails and do not do any non-work related web surfing,
> >>what privacy violation could there be?

> > How about third parties who might send personal email to your site?

> And exectly how did the third party get the email address to send personal email to in the first place?
> Thay had to have gotten it from the user. If that happens we can fire them.
> (and we have done so. And we have been sued. We won in court. They lost)

Many sites implement a "firstname.lastname@example.com" convention, or
something similarly predictable.

You seem awfully bent on firing people. Is personal email usage just an
excuse for scaling down the workforce?

Thor 

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