>> 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_.
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>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.
I think that was what was really meant here. It has been determined by
the users employer that the non-corporate email is a violation of their
policies. Illegal was probably just a bad choice of words.
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