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Re: Monitor an E-mail server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Info junkie)
Thu Oct 31 08:02:19 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:45:19 -0500 (EST)
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Ok folks,
I think we have deviated from the original question asked.
I can tell you one valid use for monitoring the mail logs, used at
the moment in Africa or where links are very expensive and bandwidth
is sold by the Megabyte not by pipe size; it is to provide detailed
usage of the sent received Megabytes.
To the original poster: There is such a script written by Tom
Christiansen a while back. If you search the perl archives closest to you
might find it. You might have to modify it slightly.
On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Kendall Clark wrote:
> At 12:01 AM 10/31/96 -0800, you wrote:
> >On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Robert Hart wrote:
> >
> >> As far as capturing random messages is concerned, here in Australia at
> >> least that is an invasion of privacy, *even* if the mail system and all
> >> its parts is owned by the employer, who also owns the connection to the
> >> Internet. Don't know about the USA laws though...
> >
> >In the USA it's legal for a company to monitor the e-mail of its
> >employees.
>
> Since we're talking about legality, I'd make one small change to this:
>
> it's legal for a company to monitor the e-mail of its employees _when that
> e-mail exists on, is processed through or by, or is facilitated by the
> employer's computer equipment_. Your employer, in other words, can only
> monitor your email when it's their computers you're using to create, read,
> or transmit it. Private email is still private when it resides or is
> created or read by your own computer.
>
> Best,
>
> Kendall G. Clark
>
>
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