Just got a message from a subscriber who claims that he was fired in part as a result of a dispute from one of my lists. The guy who was fired made a rude remark. The other party complained to the fired guy's employer. Fired guy was subscribed using his work account. That's as much as I know so far... Anyone had a similar situation they are willing to discuss?
I know of someone who quit his job over the issue of access to e-mail
for non-business purposes, and I've heard of several threatened lawsuits
arising from list flame wars, but so far as I know none were filed.
(I've been threatened with lawsuits a few times as the List Manager, too.)
I know of at least one case of an ISP being notified about a flame war
that moved over to private e-mail which resulted in the account being deactivated. Most of the time, though, the ISP does nothing.
But when you do it from a work account, whether you like it or not you can carry and have an effect on the corporate image. We have written e-mail standards we have to comply with.
