[afnog] Forwarding all outgoing mail to single user

[Antonio Godinho]

Well, I am not exactly sure what the company boss wants to achieve but I 
basically just give the technical solution. I have however talked to the 
emnployees and they are fine with it, seems they are used to being 
monitored...

Cheers,



On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:59:39 +0100, Brian Candler wrote
> 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.


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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc.,MCP, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
Maputo
Mozambique