Email

[Dick Whitman]

Totally just curious.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I have on a few occasions when work email wasn't working.

 

[bigpern23]

All the time.

 

[Vombatus]

Well, big difference when it's foreign policy and probably very sensitive info. At least FOUO if not higher. This is worse than Berger stuffing his pants.

 

[Moderator1]

Yes, though not often. I didn't have remote access for the first couple of months and I did some work before my actual start date, too. Rarely.

When I was at The Times, I started building a staff and making some plans before the actual start date, too, and used my personal email. Hey, it gave me an excuse to have my personal email up at work at all times.

In the world we operate in, business and personal intersect a lot.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I was hoping for a rant against society's obsession with technology.

 

[Ace]

On rare occasions. Usually, in the former job, when contacting freelancers from home or something.

 

[sostartled]

As a gov't employee, and because of my position (management in an agency that handles management/admin policy), I'm very aware of the rules about it and steer clear. Before I was able to access work stuff from home, I'd sometimes forward memos or projects that I needed to finish to my personal account and then send the final product back to my work account. Now that I can access it all from home, the only time I get work email in my personal account is if someone in my office accidentally sends something there instead of my work email (I've set them up so they're the same format ([email protected]/com).

I can not fathom how Hillary Clinton got away with what she did. Wouldn't someone at the White House question it at some point over a three year span? Especially after all the other email trouble they've had? Just mind-boggling to me.

 

[Tarheel316]

I have on a few occasions when work email wasn't working.

Same here. Had to do it on Tuesday when a correspondent's story wouldn't go through. He had to send it to my Gmail.

 

[Boom_70]

I submit that Hillary Clinton compromised our national security by using her private E-mail address.
Just makes no sense other than if she wanted to avoid being subject to FOI requests.

 

[sostartled]

I submit that Hillary Clinton compromised our national security by using her private E-mail address.
Just makes no sense other than if she wanted to avoid being subject to FOI requests.

I read some article that discusses that. I guess from a personal legal standpoint it makes sense. Her lawyers could argue against subpoenas, etc. But it just seems so stupid. I can understand the agency heads that use private work emails (meaning something like [email protected] when everyone else has [email protected]) just so they don't get thousands of emails from employees every day, but not having a gov't account is crazy. I also don't condone what Lisa Jackson did at EPA by using something like [email protected] in addition to a lisa.jackson account. Just dumb.

 

[da man]

Welcome to the most transparent administration in history.

I never use my personal e-mail for work stuff. I do, however, use my work e-mail for personal stuff.

 

[cranberry]

This could be bigger than Benghazi as a campaign issue.

Personally, I use my work e-mail for almost everything (although I probably shouldn't) but for various reasons I've also signed up for a few private accounts to use for various work-related social media feeds and web services.

 

[bigpern23]

This is all much ado about nothing. The NARA rules regarding emails didn't even exist until 2013. Petraeus won't see any jail time and he actually shared classified information with a woman he was boning.

 

[Dick Whitman]

OK, intereresting. Glad to see the thread didn't get too bogged down politically, but the story did make me curious about how people generally operate.

I sent a work email out with my personal Gmail account a few days after I was hired, just because I was doing some research on my home laptop without my work email on it, and my supervisor immediately said, "This is totally not a big deal since you had no idea, but you can't use your personal email account for work here .."

 

[MisterCreosote]

This is all much ado about nothing. The NARA rules regarding emails didn't even exist until 2013. Petraeus won't see any jail time and he actually shared classified information with a woman he was boning.

Well, Petraeus won't be our next president, either.

And, point of order regarding the laws, the prohibition of personal email use is from 2013. The requirement to preserve all communication, which Clinton did not do, was in place well before that.

 

[bigpern23]

I've never been admonished for using a personal email, but I do typically try to use my work email for business purposes. As others have noted, if, for whatever reason, my work email is down or inaccessible, I'll use my personal. I actually have a "semi-professional" email address set up, [email protected], because as I moved into the professional world and before I was assigned a company email address, I hated to send anything with my original personal email address, which was [email protected].

I call my firstname.lastname@gmail address "semi-professional" because it's mostly for personal use, but if I need to use it for work, I'm at least not embarrassed to have someone see the address.

 

[bigpern23]

Well, Petraeus won't be our next president, either.

And, point of order regarding the laws, the prohibition of personal email use is from 2013. The requirement to preserve all communication, which Clinton did not do, was in place well before that.

Fair distinctions on both counts. Though it should be noted, Clinton turned over 55,000 emails in 2014, well before this became a thing.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Convenient that she could control what she turned over and what she could hide.

 

[bigpern23]

Much like her predecessors, yes.