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Ohio state workers told to drop e-mail preaching.


An official with Ohio's tax department has warned employees to cease adding religious messages to their e-mail postscripts.

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 Cort, internal audit administrator for the Ohio Department of Taxation, in a July July: see month.  25 e-mail to employees said a trend "to voice personal views as part of a salutation immediately before or after the sender's name" must end. Cort noted in his e-mail that some of those personal asides included advice that was "sometimes religious in nature."

The Religion News Service reported that Cort released some examples of inappropriate inappropriate Medtalk adjective A diagnostic or therapeutic procedure proven to be unnecessary for the efficient management of a particular Pt. See Appropriateness, Canadian plan, Practice guidelines Neurology adjective Referring to a response or behavior  e-mail postscripts. One tax representative ended an e-mail with, "May God continue to bless bless  
tr.v. blessed or blest , bless·ing, bless·es
1. To make holy by religious rite; sanctify.

2. To make the sign of the cross over so as to sanctify.

3. To invoke divine favor upon.
 you and keep you from all hurt, harm and danger. This I ask in Jesus' name. Amen." Another employee's e-mail postscript The de facto standard page description language (PDL) in the graphics arts industry as well as in commercial printing. Developed by Adobe, many printers and most imagesetters support PostScript by having a built-in PostScript interpreter. , read, "May the Sweet Holy Spirit Lead and Guide you all day long!"

A department spokesperson said Cort sent the advisory because employees had apparently ignored an earlier warning about attaching religious and personal views to work e-mail.
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Date:Sep 1, 2006
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