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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. What is the problem? by MeddlesomeKids · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There seems to be an implicit assumption in this topic and some of the follow up postings that if your email address is receiving pornographic email then you must have been visiting pornographic sites or partaking of pornographic services. Thus the embarassment of taking the issue to the boss.

    But who believes that anymore?

    I'm sure this was true for the primitive Internet inhabitants of the 90's, but this is the noughts (00s). I thought by now that everyone knew that if your email is public at all, then you will start receiving spam, and a high percentage of that spam will be porn related because a high percentage of all spam is porn related. And second that the only difference between a public and private email address is time. The longer an email address has existed, then (usually) the more exposure it has had, and thus, the more spam you receive.

    So, in short, there's no issue. If you think your boss should know about or do something about your spam, tell him/her.