The single best piece of advice that can be given about sending e-mail is this: Pretend every electronic message is a postcard that can be read by anyone. Because the chances are high that it could be. (And this includes e-mail on college campus system as well.)
Think the boss can’t snoop on your e-mail at work? The law allows employers to intercept employee communications if one of the parties involved agrees to the interception. The party involved is the employer. And in the workplace, e-mail is typically saved on a server, at least for a while. Indeed, federal laws require employers to keep some e-mail message for years.
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Think you can keep your e-mail address a secret among your friends? You have no control over whether they might send your e-message on to someone else—who might, in turn, forward it again. (One thing you can do for them, however, deletes their name and address before sending ones of their message on to someone.)
Think you ISP will protect your privacy? Often service providers post your address publicly or even sell their customer lists.
Think spammers can’t find you? They will if you post an e-mail to an internet message or bulletin board, making yourself a target for pieces of software(known as “Harvester Bots”) that scour such boards for active e-mail addresses. And we have not even mentioned your e-mail being intercepted by those knowledgeable individuals known as Hackers or Crackers, which we discuss elsewhere.
If you are really concerned about preserving your privacy, you can try certain technical solutions—for instance, installing software that encodes and decodes the message. But the simplest solutions is the easiest: Don’t put any sensitive or embarrassing information in your e-mail. Even detected e-mail removed from the trash can still be traced on your hard disk. Software—for example, Spytech Eradicator and Webroot’s windows washer is –available to completely eliminate deleted files.
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