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Originally Posted by feelgood
Yeah but this isn't a corporate world, this is education world which operates on entirely different sets of rules and regulation compared to corporations.
I'm sorry, that particular line doesn't make any sense at all...
But I do agree that somewhere you signed an agreement allowing the university to monitor your e-mail.
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If they are using an email address provided by the institution then the institution is well within its rights to monitor the email.
It's not cool ... but it is legal. As far as POLICY goes that's a different matter. Policies have nothing to do with law however.
The university owns the server ... and therefore, your email account. There's no reason to sign anything.
My suggestion to people concerned about this: get a Hotmail account (or some other free "anonymous" account). Email is not considered "private" anyway.
Also, there's no way to tell if your email is being monitored (unless the administrator is stupid). Depending on what email server the university is using all the email administrator has to do is add the email account to his own or grant rights to the requesting authority -- no password needed.