Gordon Eubanks were named in a lawsuit by Borland, still
unresolved when
Netiquette went to press.
When last heard from, Symantec had instituted an email policy forbidding employees to use company email for personal purposes. Borland
still didn't have a specific email policy.
What to do about it
In general, Netiquette supports the existence of company email policies. A written policy can protect you from, for example, being fired
because your boss was snooping on your email and read the derogatory
note you wrote about him to your friend across the hall. (Yes, this has
really happened.) And it lets everyone know the organization's expectations for how email should be used. However, company policies can
also be unnecessarily restrictive.
If you're interested in helping your organization set up an email policy,
you could contact the
Electronic Messaging Association (EMA), which
represents email suppliers and corporate users. The EMA sells "Access
to and Use and Disclosure of Electronic Mail on Company Computer
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