New article in Network World on e-mail privacy
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The
article centers around how messaging
in the enterprise is not private in any regard and should not be treated
as such. This brings up a good point of how each of us in everyday life
seem to use the corporate e-mail in a personal matter at some time. Mainly
if the company does not allow you to access outside e-mail systems like
Hotmail or Yahoo.
So to limit what people do we implement
quotas. I have stated before and will state again, I have my own
opinion on quotas in standard businesses (meaning not huge requirements
on storage of all emails sent for some period of time). When you
limit these people they want to turn to trickery like storing more files
locally, forwarding to other accounts or even trying to use the public
systems for business purposes. If your enterprise has a 50MB quota
limit but the user can get 250MB on Hotmail or 1GB on Gmail, where do you
think they will turn?
You can provide space with purge intervals
and other measures to ease the burden some. But an e-mail use policy
seems to be the first and best step in making the employee understand that
they are using enterprise e-mail; it gives you the right to open, read,
search and delete whatever you desire (in terms of corporate policy or
a crazy CEO).
Read the article and give your quick opinion.
Just like this was a quick entry.
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On Thursday, December 30th, 2004 by Chris Miller
