# Don't forward my emails!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forward-my-emails/241812>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 24, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forward-my-emails/241812 "2004-04-24T16:21:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forward-my-emails/241812/21 "2004-04-26T17:00:27Z")

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D’oh! Sure it doesn’t work now, **Shade.** I was thinking too of **micco’s** post above mine while I was composing my comment. Serves me right for being in a hurry and not explaining myself clearly. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-forward-my-emails/241812/22 "2004-04-27T00:24:59Z")

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The very first email system my company ever used was mainframe-based, back in the early 80s. It had the options of turning off the “print” and “forward” options when you sent one.

Anyway, in one of the upgrades, we were told that we were going to lose the ability to turn of the “print” and “forward” options, meaning that confidential emails could possibly be compromised. Some of our managers expressed their concerns about this in our meetings with the email folks. Their simple response was “If you send something private or confidential to an employee, and that employee discloses it, you have an _employee_ problem.”

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