On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:16, Andy Linton wrote:
Surely any business operating an email system does so for the benefit of the company/enterprise etc. If individuals want to receive emails that don't match that policy then they need to have a personal account that allows them to do so. Which brings us back to advice offered for example to people in Frank's position that they get the mail from this list directed to a hotmail etc account or run their own server where they can set policy for themselves.
However, some employers also have policies that forbid access to alternate mail sources (hotmail & ISP accounts) for legitimate reasons. This leaves some one like Frank having to follow work related lists that run foul of the corporate filter in their own time from home. I think that the real answer is that Corporate policies have to be flexible enough to work around such problems. This is very obvious in an academic environment. We tag spam and leave it up to the users to decide what to do about it, some have filters that simply delete all tagged messages, some (like me) get all tagged messages dumped in a folder which a check a couple of times a day (this takes under 30 seconds normally), other don't do anything special and delete them by hand. I believe that this is essentially a management issue and has nothing to do with technology.
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