karl_kleinpaste@charcoal.com (08/02/90)
ables@lot.aca.mcc.com writes: This topic started in news.misc, but seems more appropriate here. True enough. [quoting me:] > A paper on the subject, "Averting One's Eyes -- Ethical > approaches to Postmastering," is the result. You can find a copy via > ftp in tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/sendmail/postethics, or via uucp as > osu-cis!~/sendmail/postethics. Ahem. Pat saw my posting and observed that... The paper was done as an ACM project for a conference, and I'm worrried about distribution without that copyright being there. It seems that the copy I put in my archive area was the copy of the paper mailed direct to me and the other 68 who responded to the survey. It lacked the copyright, but I didn't know it at the time. The copy of postethics has been renamed postethics.bad and chmod'd to 0400 and I will get a new copy when I find out from Pat from where I can ftp one. Those holding a copy, please get a new one when it appears "shortly." Apologies to all, and especially Pat. --karl
jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) (08/03/90)
I once caught a postmaster snooping into my mail as it passed through
his site. I guess he was bored. Or something. For the next few days
I sent through a bunch of messages to a mutual acquaintance about this
guy's personal hygiene or lack thereof, and then I stopped using that
routing.
Not a general solution, but a lot of fun.
---
Jef
Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad
judgement." -- Jim Horningtr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) (08/04/90)
When there are problems with the mailing system, the postmaster gets
copies of private email mailed to him. It's analogous to falling in
his lap. It happened to me today. A friend had sent me mail, his
system provided a bogus address, I didn't get it, my postmaster did.
He handed me a printed copy. I was lucky that he could tell it was
intended for me. And I was lucky it wasn't very private in nature.
--
Tom Reingold
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