Spam and harassmett

txpam · June 2003

One of our employees has unintentionally gotten on the email lists for some sexually explicit websites. Email comes to her complete with preview pictures. I do not believe there is a legal harassment issue for the employer, as the emails are not targeted based on gender, and the emails themsleves show men and women in equally explicit poses. But I wanted to know if any of you have ideas on how to deal with unsolicited thrid-party email on company sytems?

LFernandes · June 2003

Talk to your IT department or computer company. I know that there are filters available so that spam can't get through based on the words in the Subject line. The only problem is, sometimes spammers get creative and place spaces between the letters of the words.

Good luck!

Lfernandes

Whatever · June 2003

We had a similar situation. Discontinued the ee's web mail address and gave them a new one. It worked.

System · June 2003

I've never seen a court ruling about this, but I've wondered whether pornographic spam could be the basis for a sexual harassment claim. My gut feeling is that the answer might be yes, but I'm not sure of the legal reasoning.

The April 25 issue of HR Hero Line (our free weekly e-mail newsletter) included a helpful article, "Fighting back against spam," along with some useless rambling about Monty Python:
[url]http://www.HRhero.com/hrheroline/042503.shtml[/url]

James Sokolowski
HRhero.com

txpam · June 2003

Monty Python is never useless, and rambling is the only way to go when talking about them!

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