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Re: Email illegal?

To: british-cars@hoosier.cs.utah.edu (SOL)
Subject: Re: Email illegal?
From: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 9:12:38 CST
> Well it seems someone decided to do some stupid things and got caught
> with their shorts down and their rear hanging out in the breeze.
> Security and management (or was that manglement?), being what they
> are, have decreed that e-mail and/or mailing lists for
> non-professional reasons are _illegal_.  
> ----------------------------------

Just a bit of semantics here:  it's only illegal if there's a law 
against it.  Last time I checked, the USA was still a representative 
democracy.  E-mail (or anything else) is illegal only if it violates
a law.  Examples would be pornographic or classified material.  "How 
do I rebuild my SUs" doesn't pass the duck test here.

Just because some bureaucrat decrees that it's illegal doesn't
make it so.  Now, it may violate corporate or agency rules, which is 
completely different, especially when the corporation or agency is 
paying the bills.  But illegal?  I think not.

Just my 2 pence,
-- 
T.J. Higgins | tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com | Intergraph Mapping | Huntsville, AL
"Public Enemy Number One, understand?" -- AC/DC


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