On 12/14/10 5:43 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
Jeroen Geilman wrote:
On 12/14/10 4:04 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
Matt Hayes wrote:
BCC'ing all of your user's email is unethical IMHO. Scan outgoing and
incoming email for spam; done. That way you aren't compromising your
users' private information nor possible security to your clients.
-Matt
Not unethical or compromising private data. If the information can
be sniffed unencrypted on the wire it is already compromised. Most
email administrators already have access to mail stores where the
same data is stored unencrypted. A company's mail server and storage
is not for personal use and anyone sending e-mail they want to be
private should not use public/unecrypted methods.
That is an unwarranted assumption. If the OP provides email hosting,
then he is certainly bound by fairly strict privacy laws.
Nothing in the above suggests this is solely for professional use.
You are correct and should have keep my point more narrow in purpose.
But I meant to express something similar to... BCC'ing is not
unethical unless you read all the mail. I could easily BCC all the
users mail and simply maintain a copy. It is the same as having root
access to the mail store which I think the OP does.
Except that he explicitly listed "scanning the mail to see if it was
spam" as the REASON to BCC. Unethical, yup.
--
J.
