West Lothian and email

[ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk]

Quoting Roland Perry <lists@internetpolicyagency.com>:

> In article <20090115194025.smlqovek2s04kc04@webmail01.purplecloud.com>,
> signup@bealoid.co.uk writes
>> Lothian (not a trust I know) was, from the radio programme, saying   
>> that they are happy for staff to send email internally on the   
>> intranet, but it must not go outside to the Internet.
>
> Did they give a reason? (Or can you surmise what their reason might be).
> -- 
> Roland Perry

Something along the lines of "internal email is secure, external email  
could be mis-delivered or sent to a shared account".

The flaws in their thinking are obvious.