OK - I have just gotten tired of it.
Consider this a warning - so that maybe you will think before you blindly spill your guts and send very personal things via email. Email you don't control.
I can guarantee that there is someone out that is watching your mail messages go by. How you say? Because that's what I am paid to do - day in and day out. I am a faceless Postmaster who runs email systems for several large companies.
If you don't run your own mail server - and encrypt your msgs from the time they leave your computer - until the time that your receipient gets them - then someone like me can read them.
I can see if you are floating your resume out to recruiters (and if they respond). I can see if you are doing personal (or competing) business on company time. I can see the pictures of your new child, your new house, your new car, your new boyfriend/girlfriend, or the latest MasterCard farce picture. I can see when you have broken up w/ your spouse, and are confiding w/ your best friend.
Oh - and hiding those pictures of Miss February in a PowerPoint presentation - just slows the system down - and doesn't hide them from anyone.
With the amount of spam that is going through the 'Net these days - the systems are getting smarter, but so are the spammers. So you have to check to see how well the filters are working. And when they don't work so well - you get a mess of mail that you really don't want to see.
Doubt what I am saying? Check your Acceptable use Policy from your ISP, or your Corporate Email policy. Don't have an email policy - well that can only spell trouble for your employer. When they go to let someone go for reading humor list posts all day long.
(Been there done that - have the T-Shirt - several in fact).
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