--- Chris Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote> > Through the course of security training work that I > do, > it's clear that most big companies here in the UK > would not even now tolerate work e-mail > subscriptions > to a list such as this, regardless of content. The > line taken is that its misuse of company resources > (both IT resources and time on the part of the > employee) > since it's not work-related. > > As a rule of thumb: if you're not allowed to get to > Hotmail > or Yahoo mail or whatever from your work desk, you > probably > shouldn't be subscribed to the Joni list at your > work > e-mail address. If you can do Hotmail/Yahoo mail > from your > desk, subscribe to the list there and ditch the work > sub. > Much less ammo for clueless pointy-haried-boss > types...
This is the policy where I work. There are people who circumvent the usual log-on protocols in the morning who do manage to access Hotmail and so on. When they're caught they're either seriously reprimanded or fired, depending on circumstance, severity and, oh yes, seniority. I used to sub to the jonilist at work too, just to keep up with the postings, but had to uns*b because I got a fright one day when I got a message from ITSecurity about a possible virus through smoe. My boss may not have pointy hair, but she has pointy fingernails and she's very fussy about getting as much efficiency out of her staff as she can, so she simply doesn't tolerate anything on one's PC (or cubicle) that looks remotely like fun. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
