Re: [tlug] outsourcing email service

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tlug-bounces@example.com [mailto:tlug-bounces@example.com?? On 
> Behalf Of Micheal Cooper
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 4:26 PM
> To: Tokyo Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [tlug] outsourcing email service
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> Very good points. Thank you.
> 
> In an interesting (at least to me) aside, while this makes perfect 
> sense, the organizational hierarchy can make the whole issue 
> moot. For 
> example, in my organization, monitoring email is completely 
> out of the 
> question, because the IT department is under supervision of 
> the Dean of 
> Faculty, and the faculty are absolutely against any kind of 
> monitoring, 
> so none can be done.
> 
> Thank you again.

In this case nothing can be done.  It is USUALLY not as big an issue
with a school, because the nature of the information they deal with is
often intended to be shared.  My comments would probably be more useful
to a less public organization.

However, whatever the case may be, if the higher ups say no to
monitoring, there is not a lot that can be done.  If there is no
monitoring allowed however, how can user agreements be enforced?
Doesn't that effectively invalidate most aspects of what a user agreed
to do or not do when they set up their email account, simply on the
grounds that there is no way to know if they are or not?