Unicorn wrote:

borderline activity. It's hardly a settled point. That you are so quick to advocate corporate ownership of potentially private e-mail out of hand and without argument tells us much about your real position, Mr. Moscaritolo. Three words: "Expectation of Privacy."

Unicorn, In that piece of knowledge smashing, just as you do in most of your posts, you again mixed up things to make sure that everybody end up knowing less than when they started. It is peoples like you that ended up with using Expectation of Privacy out of it's rightfull context. Apart from various rulings of various judges that probably smoked various herbs, can you please tell me how anybody can rightfully expect privacy when everything that permits them to exchange information is *owned* by somebody else and that the use of this equipment is there *only* for the activities of the owner of the equipment? If it weren't of the business, the damn computer wouldn't be there. And beside, the employee is not paid to chat with friends, he's paid to work. If he doesn't want to work, just fine, but not on the company's pay... Somehow, you basic premises always blows my mind. I think that you are a *very* dangerous person. I've been watching you for almost three years over Cypherpunks and e$-etc and other forums. Virtually *all* of your posts have this blow-up-their-basic-premises-and-let-them-with-nothing-but-confusion style. Your style shows intelligence and skill in the way you do it, which rules out idiocy on your part. So, clearly, you have an agenda. I cannot help but having the nagging feeling that you're on some three-letter agency payroll because you have the uncanny habit of disrupting and diverting some important discussion. I always wanted to killfile you but always refrained to do so just to be able to read the last finely crafted basic premises-smashing abomination. So, again, which of the three-letter agency sends you a paycheck? Or are you doing is only for a secret decoration? jfa -- Jean-Francois Avon, Pierrefonds(Montreal) QC Canada DePompadour, Societe d'Importation Ltee Finest of Limoges porcelain and crystal JFA Technologies, R&D consultants physicists and engineers, LabView programing. PGP encryption keys at: http://w3.citenet.net/users/jf_avon http://bs.mit.edu:8001/pks-toplev.html ID# C58ADD0D : 529645E8205A8A5E F87CC86FAEFEF891 ID# 5B51964D : 152ACCBCD4A481B0 254011193237822C