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Pornographic Spam And The Workplace

Posted by timothy on from the heavy-breathing-on-the-job dept.

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?"

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  1. heh by revmoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pornographic spam is quite a problem...

    Anyone remember farm sluts?

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    I would expect such blatant racism on Fark, but on Slashdot? Mods please ban this asshole.
  2. You hire resonable admins by ivanmarsh · · Score: 5, Informative

    We monitor ALL traffic entering and exiting our network.

    We don't hassle people about porno spam or the occasional mis-navigation to www..com. It's pretty obvious when someone is really surfing porn or doing anything else inappropriate.

  3. Re:True Story... by julesh · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is just one of the reasons why e-mail preview panes are evil and should be removed from all e-mail clients. Opening an e-mail should require positive action, especially if the e-mail may be encoded using HTML or another similarly capable format that can cause your computer to take actions automatically (eg downloading an image, sending a receipt back to the sender, installing a worm...).