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Red Earth Software, warns that many companies are not filtering their internal emails, hence making their organization vulnerable to harassment Ask a Lawyer

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I recently moved to nev.from abut have been going back to ca. every 2 to 3 weeks for med.
, racist and sexual discrimination lawsuits. Although many organizations filter their external mails for offensive words and add footers to disclaim dis·claim  
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 responsibility for content, messages sent on the internal network are often left untouched. The recent settlement in the UK for obscene emails sent over the internal network only serves to highlight the fact that leaving internal emails unchecked can prove to be a costly business.

A possible reason why most companies only content check their external mails is because there are simply not many email filters that are capable of checking internal mails. This is because the technology for filtering internally sent emails is far more advanced than for externally sent emails. At the moment, Policy Patrol is the only one-stop solution that claims to filter internal as well as external mails (if installed on Exchange Server 2000 or 2003), whist whist, card game for four players, those on opposite sides of the table being partners. The full pack of 52 cards is dealt. The dealer's last card is turned up to indicate trump, and after he draws this card in hand, the player on the left of the dealer leads.  offering a full feature set including spam E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it).  black lists and disclaimer features, and the option to apply different roles depending on whether the mail is internal or external.

Policy Patrol is an email-filtering tool that offers advanced anti-spam, anti-virus, content & attachment checking, disclaimers, archiving and reporting. It works with Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions.  2003/2000/5.5, LotusDomino and any other SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail.  mail server. If installed on Exchange Server 2003 or 2000, it can filter internal as well as external emails.

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Title Annotation:Internet Focus
Publication:Database and Network Journal
Date:Oct 1, 2003
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