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From: "Roland Perry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Personal email on company systmes
> In message <[log in to unmask]>, at 00:18:17
> on Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Kevin Broadfoot <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Each employee would have two addresses -
>>something like [log in to unmask] for business mail and
>>[log in to unmask] for their personal mail.
>
> One context I've seen this used is where the employer is an ISP, and staff
> would have two email address such as [log in to unmask] for business (and
> there existing a published convention that email addresses of that format
> belonged to and were recognisable by the outside world as staff), plus
> [log in to unmask] (or whatever similar naming system the ISP used)
> being in effect a "free" customer account at the same ISP.
>
> The ISP staff are quite likely to use that same "personal" email address
> when logged in at home - which is a little more complicated to arrange
> (and would the employer in your story be prepared to facilitate that). The
> alternative is employees having three email addresses (home, work and work
> personal).
>
> Maybe it would be simpler to suggest the employees get a webmail account
> for the private email (and whatever address they like), and allow them to
> access that from work quite separately from their work email - at which
> point the employer's email systems don't have to be involved at all.
Which is the same that people as I do with my BT account, and what people do
when they go to an Internet Cafe. So why the necessity to supply people with
a personal account by the employer?
Is it so that they have no excuse for using the work account for private
purposes?
Nick Landau
Nick Landau's Profile on LinkedIn.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicklandau1
The Numbers Game
http://uk.geocities.com/nicklgreen/Nos_Game
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