Corporations plagued by personal email

A FIFTH OF emails addressed to big organisations is of a "personal" nature, a company said today.

And web mail is a sine qua non for people in corporations, worried that "Big Brother" might be watching them.

Email Systems said it has managed to monitor the flow of email traffic to UK businesses and other organisations and come up with a bit of software which could allow IT administrators to limit access to "illegitimate distribution of sensitive documents".

This is most, most interesting, because we at the INQ are aware of one UK quango (quasi autonomous government organisation) which, when it fails to find people spilling secrets, blames the poor IT manager, threatening the poor wight with gross misconduct, while leaving other windows gaping open wide.

Such as the egregious "Cabinet Office".

According to Neil Hammerton, a director of Email Systems: ”It's true that a small percentage of this traffic to webmail may also be for legitimate reasons, such as a back up address if a corporate email address is not working for example. However, with the correct email management system in place it becomes immediately apparent whether a user is abusing the system or simply sending email that was unable to be sent via the usual, legitimate channels." µ