[afnog] Forwarding all outgoing mail to single user

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:41:24PM -0300, Hervey Allen wrote:
> But, it's definitely a privacy issue. There is no privacy 
> for employees of this company in their business dealings. 
> Reading everyone's email is just the same as taping 
> everyone's phone conversations. It stifles free exchange of 
> opinions and ideas among employees and among potential 
> clients since employees will be worried about saying 
> anything negative, or that could be miscontrued.

Although to play Devil's Advocate for a moment: any email originating from a
company server with a company E-mail address can be considered to be an
opinion of or statement made on behalf of the company.

Arguably the company has some rights to monitor what is being said to
outsiders on its behalf. It probably doesn't *want* free exchange of
opinions, and probably *does* want to avoid its employees saying anything
which could be misconstrued.

Also, telephone conversations to customer helpdesks are often recorded "for
quality monitoring", whatever that means, and nobody has a problem with
that.

Just thought I'd offer a bit of balance :-)

Regards,

Brian.