nolan@celery.tssi.com writes:
>> Just got a message from a subscriber who claims that he was fired
>> in part as a result of a dispute from one of my lists. The guy
>> who was fired made a rude remark. The other party complained to
>> the fired guy's employer. Fired guy was subscribed using his
>> work account. That's as much as I know so far... Anyone had a
>> similar situation they are willing to discuss?
>
> I know of someone who quit his job over the issue of access to e-mail
> for non-business purposes, and I've heard of several threatened lawsuits
> arising from list flame wars, but so far as I know none were filed.
> (I've been threatened with lawsuits a few times as the List Manager, too.)
>
> I know of at least one case of an ISP being notified about a flame war
> that moved over to private e-mail which resulted in the account being
> deactivated. Most of the time, though, the ISP does nothing.
But when you do it from a work account, whether you like it or not you can
carry and have an effect on the corporate image. We have written e-mail
standards we have to comply with.
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