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Re: help needed -- e-mail censorship and company policy
Subject:Re: help needed -- e-mail censorship and company policy From:Pochun Chan <pchan -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 9 Feb 1994 13:35:38 -0800
Sarah wrote:
> .........
> If you have policies or e-mail "police,"
> what is the mood of employees in response
> to them? Has e-mail been a source of
> problems in your company? What kinds
> of problems? Legal? Morale? If you have
> policies, why were they implemented?
> .......
In Jeffrey Rothfeder's book "Privacy for Sale", there are some
interesting discussions regarding to the use of email in a corporation
(p. 168-170). One of the thing I remember is that a company removed
its email system because it became a big company-wide dating service :-)
