[LINK] Re: Does an email account constitute a "letterhead"?

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:48:18AM +1100, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> Wholeheartedly agree on all these points, Craig - but how do we get  
> around the nonsensical 'disclaimeritis' that pervades organisations?  

probably impossible. cluelessness is eternal. 

and getting an org to stop it would require them admitting that they
were being clueless to start with. that's extremely unlikely to happen.


> As for separating work and personal mail - absolutely: though some  
> workplaces (and most schools) forbid or block access to various mail  
> paths, including via SSH or even web-based e-mail. 

so run your mail server or ssh daemon on port 80 or 443. 

easy enough to do.

i've had to do that recently for my partner, so she can ssh to home to
read her mail (her sysadmin at work was being very slow about updating
the fw rules to allow her to ssh out. took me only a few seconds to
configure sshd to listen on port 443 as well as port 22).

> It makes it trickier for those who don't have either the tools or
> knowledge at their disposal.

unavoidable....but the information is available for those who care to
look for it.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)