That's what I said in the beginning. You may the "rights" to do it, but that doesn't mean you should. I don't go anywhere that a manager or supervisor tells me to. We get User requests all the time asking for access to a User's mailbox that has left the Company. We bounce it back to them and tell them they need managerial approval.
Gèoff....... -----Original Message----- From: Drew Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:46 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blocking a newsletter Um, no. Even though I am the Lan Manager for my company, I have not been given permission to go rifling through the payroll documents or the CEO's email. I have the ability to recover docs when necessary, and look at stuff when told to, but being made an Admin does NOT give me ANY implicit trusts. The only tasks I do are ones that I have been specifically given. Since my boss has not told me to monitor employees' mail for specific kinds of newsletters, I am not allowed to do so, and if I did, I could (rightly) be fired. If it's specifically written down, then it's not implied. there is a difference. www.dictionary.com? Drew Nicholson Technical Writer Network Engineer LAN Manager RapidApp 312-372-7188 (work) 312-543-0008 (cell) Born To Edit -----Original Message----- From: Dale Geoffrey Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:37 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blocking a newsletter That's not true. As an Mail Administrator/Engineer, whatever you want to call yourself, there is implicit trust that you will not abuse your power to be able to view EVERYONE's email, due to the confidentiality of, oh say, the CEO or CFO. You have the power to view payroll and accounting documents. But as a Mail Administrator, it is a position of high sensitivity. Highly sensitive documents are passed through the mail system. You are expected not to sit down one afternoon and see what your boss or some other manager has been sending emails out about. It may not be written in some companies, but it is written in others. And I learned that the more you stay out of people's business, the more they will trust you not to look at sensitive documents. Gèoff....... -----Original Message----- From: Drew Nicholson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 3:22 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blocking a newsletter that's not necessarily true. Unless he's been told to do it (which it appears he has), he doesn't have some sort of implicit right to do it. He has to be tasked with it. Drew Nicholson Technical Writer Network Engineer LAN Manager RapidApp 312-372-7188 (work) 312-543-0008 (cell) Born To Edit -----Original Message----- From: Dale Geoffrey Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:48 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blocking a newsletter Rachel: As an Exchange Administrator, he has the right to browse ANYONE's mail. That mail belongs to the Company, so there shouldn't be anything in there that an enduser would be afraid of someone else seeing. Remember -- the email is on Company's equipment, software, etc. It is THEIRS. Gèoff....... -----Original Message----- From: Rachel Pickens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:09 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Blocking a newsletter >From my point of view: If no one has asked you to monitor content and provided a written order, what are you doing browsing someone else' mail? Its bad form, and can get you fired. If you have been told to monitor then just enforce what is normally enforced. Don't ask the end user. They will talk you into an exception, and that one exception will become a chink in your armour that will be used and abused by everyone. I wasn't going to to register my opinion on this one, but I must tell you, taking advice from Hummert is a bad idea. Whatever you do, don't do it because Hummert says so. I (shudder) have seen the places Hummert considers normal and it makes me want to scrub off the top 2 layers of my skin. Sincerly, Rachel -----Original Message----- From: James Liddil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Blocking a newsletter Via Scanmail I find that a user is subscribed (or appears to be) to the f^ckedcompany.com newsletter. Besides the domain name there is other profanity in the newsletter. So do I follow company policy or let it slide? My gut reaction is to ask the person if they are subscribed and then politely ask them to unsubscribe and not have this kind of thing sent to a work address. 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