On 14 Aug 2001, at 10:09, jon@??? wrote:
> Dont you think a laywer in <insert your country here> is better
> "suited" for answering that question ??
I can poin to a sentence in Italy. That one was about paper mail,
but is very easily applicable to e-mail :
It is not considered illegal to snoop to private mail, if found _open_
on the other person desk, unless you enter his office with fraud or
violence.
Thios could turn to e-mail in sayng "if you read the e-mail of
another person before he read for the first time, it is illegal, but if
you just found it on a publicly readable folder (even if left there by
mistake or due to OS fault) and you read it is not illegal."
Leonardo Boselli
nucleo informatico e telematico
Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile
Universita` di Firenze
V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze
tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333
http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
