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>I'm willing to let everyone else vote on open / closed, but I, too, think
>that it's ridiculous for anyone's employer's email policy to dictate
>anything about the behavior of the Vanagon list.

Get a clue Kyle...the employer is not controlling the behavior of the
Vanagon list or any other list for that matter. It can, however, control
whatever traffic which comes across company-owned bandwidth, equipment and
networks from whatever source.

>  What if a legitimate "hot, steaming pussy" discussion comes up?  Or some
> more realistic, but borderline discussion that offends employer's policies?

As a number of posters have already mentioned, people have been fired for
misuse or abuse of email, and even one person had to go to his employer to
let them know he was receiving porno through the vanagon list. What more do
you want here? Face it employer based policies are a fact of life for a
number of us.

Ric