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"Harassment" Runs Rampant In British Email... Three Or Four Years Ago, Maybe

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Mon, Feb 6th 2006 11:27am — Carlo Longino
The BBC is touting a study from the British government that says one in eight people in the country have been "harassed by email". They sort of bury the fact that the study was conducted in 2002 and 2003 (what took them so long?), and they, nor the government, ever clarify what exactly constitutes an offensive email, or when being offensive crosses the line into becoming harassment. So basically we're left with a bunch of three- or four-year-old data that's not really clear at all, but a nice meaty headline. It would be nice to know what's actually going on here, if people in the UK really are being harassed left and right via email. Maybe a stern email to the BBC is in order, asking them to clarify -- or would that be harassment?
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    ZOMG CENSORED, 6 Feb 2006 @ 12:34pm

    Missing title?

    A title is missing... It's in the rss but not here.

    Anyway, the article was pretty interesting, but I'm not sure about the direction things are heading.

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    Rikko, 6 Feb 2006 @ 2:53pm

    No Subject Given

    Subjective crap like this can't be quantified anyways. What is defined as harassment or offensive won't just vary between judges but also on the kind of day you're having..

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      Michal, 6 Feb 2006 @ 4:44pm

      Re: No Subject Given

      no the only thing you can say is that people feel more or less harassed. While generally you don't want people harassed, you also don't want them to feel harassed either.

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