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RE: [at-l] Ethics and E-mail

Please help me get off this list.

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Ken Goyette
New Technology Solutions Inc.
Systems Integration Specialist
(978) 851-0801 x227
http://www.ntsi.com
"The probability that we
 may fail in the struggle ought
 not to deter us from the support 
of a cause we believe to be just."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	MarvWelte@aol.com [SMTP:MarvWelte@aol.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 04, 1998 7:59 AM
> To:	kahley7@ptd.net; at-l@saffron.hack.net
> Subject:	Re: [at-l] Ethics and E-mail
> 
> In a message dated 98-02-03 17:04:57 EST, kahley7@ptd.net writes:
> 
> SNIPPET
> 
> > Last year I included the text of a private e-mail
> >  in a post to the list intentionally.
> 
> Don't be too hard on yourself.   Everyone has e-mail problems
> occasionally.
> It is part of being human.
> 
> There are a lot of e-mail etiquette considerations, and a lot of
> things the
> sender needs to be aware of.
> 
> E-mail, like snail mail, comes under the control of the recipient.
> 
> E-mail is more like a post card than a confidential document. It can
> get read
> along the way.  It can get passed around by the recipient.  
> 
> If someone really wants an e-mail to be confidential, they should say
> that in
> the e-mail.  Then passing it around would really be unethical.
> 
> Don't write anything in an e-mail message about someone that you would
> not be
> willing to put on the office bulletin board with your signature on it.
> 
> 
> Sending a lot of blind CCs is not good.  It will make the recipient of
> the
> blind CC think that you are not trustworthy.  Blind CCs do have their
> place,
> however.  (Blind CCs are CC addresses that are not apparent to other
> recipients of the e-mail.  Most mail systems support this.  On AOL you
> put the
> CC address in parentheses.) 
> 
> Because there is no face-to-face contact, and no voice contact,
> innocent
> remarks in e-mail can be mis-understood, causing anger.  E-mail wars
> then
> break out.  Emoticons help this.  Emoticon examples are :-)  and  :-(
> 
> E-mail on your company system is (is probably) the property of your
> employer.
> Certainly your employer can read it.  So do not use company e-mail for
> a lot
> of personal purposes.  Even if you delete an e-mail message, it may
> stay
> around in some system archive; delete may just mean that it is
> inaccessible to
> you but not to the company techie.  
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