On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 04:15:39PM -0400, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
I said "Sorry. I know, I know."
It's what others may think, and I don't want to have to explain it.
In certain environments, I could see that certain people may have a legal or moral right to look at your email messages, or at logs of what email domains send you messages, but do you really think someone is going to a) notice this, b) make the "wrong" assumption about what it means, c) care, and d) say something to you to which you'd have to explain something?
I don't know what kind of environment you work in, but that seems like a stretch to me. And do you really care about explaining yourself to someone who would jump to such a conclusion so quickly? And further, haven't you ever heard of a personal email account, unrelated to your workplace, at which you could receive emails without the knowledge of anyone at $WORKPLACE?
My politics are about as far from the tea party as it's possible to get, but I really don't see how this is a legitimate concern.
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