Anne-Marie,

Many people feel free to forward pieces of e-mail on to others (whether this is stictly proper or not) much as someone may forward you a short article or newspaper clipping they thought you would be interested in.  About the only thing that I would suggest would be to make it explicit in your message introduction that you do not want the message circulated without permission.  Short statements such as: "Please feel free to forward to other interested parties" or "Do not forward to others without permission," given the professional nature of most of your e-mail recipients (assumption), would probably be respected (although not 100% of the time).  I don't know that it needs to be dealt with in a specific policy, but if it is a problem, making a general practice of including a statement of this sort may be useful.

BTW HI!  How's the old stomping ground?

-----Original Message-----

From:   Anne-Marie Fenger[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Wednesday, August 13, 1997 5:58 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: e-mail policies

Does anyone have a policy concerning the confidentiality of e-mail
messages?  Sometimes we send information via e-mail that is intended for
one person or for a specific group of people and the person(s) forwards it
to others for whom the message was not intended.  I would appreciate
knowing how others deal with this type of thing or if it is even possible
to deal with it.
 
Anne-Marie Fenger
UBC Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive
Vancouver, B.C.  V6T lZ2
Tel. 604-822-5567
Fax. 604-822-2974
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