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Pornographic Spam And The Workplace
dolo666 writes "The BBC posted an article about how UK legal experts are warning businesses to take a more active role in the prevention of pornographic spam. If you get an explicit email, how exactly do you show it to your boss, without looking guilty yourself?"
Why do you present this as a joke?
It's quite clever, I would do it to my boss
If this applies to companies in the US at all, does anyone have the emails to all the employees at SCO? Get Linux out of the hot seat by forcing their legal team to deal with all the cases their employees will bring against them!
Sadly enough, I would not be amazed if this underhanded tactic would actually work...
That's scary.
If you get an explicit email, how exactly do you show it to your boss, without looking guilty yourself?
Silly! You don't show this to your boss! If I were you, I'd let the issue "bubble up" to management without putting a bullseye on my shirt. How to do this? Use the time-honored method of watercooler smalltalk.
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. You met your coworkers there any chat about whatever. Occasionally you use that time to tentatively throw out an issue that bugs you and see if anyone else latches on to it.
Bob: 'Morning Guy. 'Morning Sally.Sally: 'Morning boys!
Guy: Hey everyone. How's things going?
Bob: I just spent an hour cleaning up the code after that asshat Maurice committed a bunch of stuff that caused compiler warnings. Sure, they're not strictly errors but still we should strive to write good code. That really bugs me.
Sally: Yeah? Well I got to work 30 minutes late today because there was an accident. It had been moved well off the road so there wasn't any reason for a slowdown in traffic. Except, of course, the fact that every little shithead had to gawk at other people's misery. *That* is what really bugs me.
Guy: You know what really bugs me? All that goat porn spam that floods my Inbox. I mean, I like to look at naked girls like everyone but that stuff is sick! You know what I'm talking about?
Bob: *cough*
Sally: Um, I've got to go. Just remembered a meeting I'm supposed to be at. See you later, Bob.
Mark my words: a few watercooler conversations like this and sooner or later word of the problem will trickle on up to management.
Hope this helps,
GMD
watch this
Read the article...
It seems anti-spam vendors are saying companies could be sued for emotional damage if they don't block spam.
I don't know about the UK courts, but I could just see this one going to court in Canada...
Plaintiff: Someone outside the company emailed me an ad for porn and it hurt my feelings so much I suffered a financial loss.Judge: You clearly have psychological issues that are not the fault of your employer. Seek counselling. Case Dismissed.
IANAL
There are two immediately obvious options on our mail server. Halfway down the back of the case, there's a blue cable with an RJ-45 Jack, and at the top of the case there's a black cable with a 3-holed trapezoidal plug. Unplug either of these, and you'll block 100% of spam coming into the server.
Not CC:. BCC:
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