The morality of logfiles [was 'Wild west']

[Greg Munt <greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk>]

> JC Lawrence wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 19:20:57 GMT "Jon A. Lambert"
> > <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I do NOT believe the logging of communications to be an immoral
> > > action at all.  However, some possible actions taken on this
> > > information CAN be immoral.  Any actions taken on log information
> > > should be done with the with the highest regard to privacy, ethics
> > > and morals.
> > 
> > Another approach of courae has making all logs public and
> > un-editable.  It then becomes difficult to define any action derived
> > from log contents as improper as that data is know "in the puiblic
> > domain" as it were.

Some logs are too sensitive to be made public (logs of private 
conversations, etc - these may need to be kept private IC - as Vadim has 
stated, in another post).

What this all comes down to is the trustworthiness of the administration. 
There is a simple answer to this. If you don't trust the admin, either 
live with it, or stop playing.

It's that simple.

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