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Reading an article in the Time Tue 16 Jan 01 - "E-mail's public-private partnership" written by Penny Lewis caused some debate in my mind regarding that balance. It does appear that the privacy of e-mail is only really brought into question when there is some intimation that the medium might be being abused. This seems to apply both in the business and individually private context. Attacks to access the contents of an individuals, or businesses e-mail, where there is no abuse appear to be only power plays between the different players. If that is so, then e-mail should be protected unless abuse is being investigated. The debate regarding abuse of the law or abuse of an organisations policies, which cause important perceptual differences, are only of secondary concern at this point. Does anybody have any examples which would counter the above view? Ian W.