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[Adam Atkinson]

On 13-Jul-01 13:32:36, Ross Anderson said:

>BTW I recycled this example on Tuesday when we had a debate in the
>University's Regent House about email. A new and clueless personnel chap
>had sent round a circular saying that if we sent email that contained
>anything criminal, or that could get the University sued, or even annoy
>anyone, then this could be interpreted as gross misconduct and we could
>be sacked.

Surely academics with tenure can't be sacked?

I hope Regent House told this person to get lost, anyway.

I still think forbidding the receipt of untrue statements via
email/web/phone/fax is the most startling one I've seen.

-- 
Adam Atkinson (ghira@mistral.co.uk)
Verbing weirds language. (Calvin)