[HAPS-L] Privacy of our emails

["Carl Shuster" <CShuster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, everyone;

As long as Jon has brought up this issue, I will take the opportunity
to remind all users of HAPS-L the following (I do this once or twice a
year in any case, but we have had a lot of new members of late):

"HAPS-L" is a public service of the Human Anatomy & Physiology Society,
and is meant as an open forum for the exchange of ideas.  HAPS-L is NOT
a secure email system, and is NOT limited to members of HAPS.  Anyone
can join HAPS-L.  All emails submitted to HAPS-L are open to the public.
 Any advice given on this Listserv is the responsibility of the author
of the email.

Although we do not archive postings (yet), people should be aware that
ALL emails sent through any email system are ultimately retrievable, and
for legal reasons are normally considered public domain unless sent
through a secured system.

Always be aware of that before you hit the little "send" button on the
top of your screen.

Carl S.

Carl Shuster
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>>> Jon Jackson <jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 02/21/07 9:50 AM >>>
Alan, et al.

My university runs ssuch software and would be interested in hosting 
such a list. However, I am loath to offer such a service to the group 
because North Dakota, like other states who are "open records" states,

would treat these emails as public records, and not in any sense 
private. Not that anyone who posts to a list serve can realistically 
claim to have an expectation of provacy - our state legal system has a

poor track record of even putting up a fight with respect to student
and 
faculty emails, even when using the email account provided by the state

is a job/student requirement.

JJ

Alan Magid wrote:
> Hapsters,
> 
> Along with others, I have volunteered to help establish a mail list 
> service that provides an easily accessible archive of the list
messages.
> 
> Among the solutions being considered is the pioneering software in
this 
> field, “Listserv” (not a generic term actually) produced by
L-Soft. This 
> is a commercial package with upfront and annual license fees. Many 
> universities run this software on their academic computer servers for

> use by faculty.
> 
> The software will support many separate mail lists, and so, HAPS
could 
> use this software for free if the university were willing. We need
each 
> of you who works at an institution with an academic computing center
to 
> forward this message to their help desk in the hopes of identifying a

> college or university prepared to host our list. Let them know that
list 
> traffic is fairly light (less than 100 Kbytes/day) and we have at 
> present fewer than 400 list subscribers.
> 
> If you get a positive response, contact me at amagid@xxxxxxxxx and
copy 
> Carl Shuster as well. His email is <CShuster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> TIA
> 
> -Alan

-- 
Dr. Jon Jackson
University of North Dakota
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Room 1701
School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stop 9037
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037

jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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