Moral Question: Is it right to traking people email online

[Claude Larochelle]

Very interresting ethic point!  It is a little bit like the technology that
are created for peace and medical purpose, and someone in a military
laboratory find a destrucfull manner to use it.  Nuclear is the perfect
exemple.  It can produce cheap electricity for poor conutry, it can burn
cancer tumor, etc... But, we can produce extreme explosion.  Should we ban
the nuclear technology because some poeple develop the bomb?

I think you should look at the finallity of the processus:

Is this functionnallity:  mail that poeples of your compagny will be able to
read,  can help your client?  For exemple they will be able to give hint to
helpdesk poeple or answer directly to the client.

Is the mail that you will send to others is to be used for other purpose
than help your client?  I.E. Selling e-mail addresses, or stuff like that.

If the answer for the question 1 is yes, and for the second is no, I think
you should not be unconfortable with this.  And anyway, if you do not
develop this functionnallity, what can you do if someone in your compagny is
sending to everyone the mails they received from your clients.  At the end,
it is the same thing.

Have a nice day,

Claude

2006/7/11, Myles A. Braithwaite <myles at monkeyinyoursoul.com>:
>
> While yes and no. I want to do is similar to a Mailing List so that
> anyone in my Company will be able to see emails sent and received said
> client. Yet the client will never know that this is happening unlike
> this Mailing List where the users have full knowledge that they are
> sending an email to multiple people and that it will be archive. My
> Question is if it is moral to do this behind my clients back or should I
> force my users to do this manually or add an email signature saying
> "This email will be shared with group"?
>
> Claude Larochelle said the following on 7/11/2006 10:50 AM:
> > Myles, if user are willing to give a replying address, and if the
> > adress they are giving are not used to gather adresses to sell it to
> > every body , or for another usage that user don't know, I will say it
> > is not immoral to do this.  Is really different when you are leaving
> > your address to this list?
> >
> > Maybe I just did not understand exactly the point  :-|
> >
> >
> > Have a nice day,
> >
> > Claude on vacancy!
> >
> > 2006/7/11, Myles A. Braithwaite < myles at monkeyinyoursoul.com
> > <mailto:myles at monkeyinyoursoul.com>>:
> >
> >     I am currently creating an web based project manager that will do a
> >     number of things including an area where a user will be able to
> >     forward
> >     an email to the site and it will save on to the database. This will
> be
> >     done by sending an email to the projects name converted to a MD5
> >     sum @
> >     what ever the domain. But this will allow users to set reply-to to
> >     said
> >     email address, thought at a design/development point I have no
> >     problem,
> >     it seems that is is more of a moral issues. Do you think that it
> >     would
> >     be wrong of me to do something like this? Or should I just not
> release
> >     the email address to users, making them just use the Thunderbird
> >     Plugin?
> >
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