ANST - Problems at work

[j'lynn yeates]

On 2 Sep 98, at 15:41, James D. Logan/Jane Sitton-Lo wrote:

> You can always set up a hotmail account it would not be resident on your
> computer, it's web based email.

but you would still be using company time and reasources to persue non 
work related personal communications ... some employers don't mind (if 
kept in reason ... heavy and constant email list access usually annoys 
management in that they are obvious and use measurable company 
resources), some do mind no matter how little is used.  in many cases 
these "clamp downs" are the result of abuse of the privalege to use 
company systems for personal pursuits in the beliefe there was a right to 
do so (for record, i'm one of those in between management and users who 
have to enfore these edicts)

put yourself in their shoes ... *they* not you are the ones who would be 
called into account should abuse occur by an employee on their systems .. 
they would be the ones legally liable should it come to blows.  to anyone 
out there using company systems for your personal communications, ask 
your network admin for your companies "internet usage" rules and 
regulations (most smart ones have them as legal protections to themselves 
...) and see where you stand ... to be fore-warned is to be fore-armed.

the corect solution to such a problem is to get setup from home with a 
system and a personal ISP access and use this as your primary email 
access.  circumvention of office rules by setting up a hotmail account that 
can't be monitored (the email flow through corporate networks *can* easily 
be monitored, have been asked to do so on more than one occasion) is 
simply setting yourself up for being terminated with just cause.

'wolf
... just another netadmin

... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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