One of the best examples of the improper use of e-mail that we’ve seen in some time:
Hundreds of would-be staffers in Gov. Spitzer’s administration were nervously biting their nails yesterday after an e-mail address list of job seekers accidentally became public.
One applicant, with strong ties to Assembly Republicans, told The Post he feared he would be fired if his interest in working for Democrat Spitzer became known.
“Holy s—, they did what?” declared the Republican after learning that a Spitzer recruitment aide accidentally sent an e-mail response to a job applicant that included the e-mail addresses of another 227 people.
Many of the addresses revealed the identities of the job seekers and included at least two journalists and many employees of former Gov. Pataki.
“There’s a good deal of anxiety among a lot of the applicants,” said a Spitzer insider.
“Those whose bosses didn’t know they were looking are afraid they’ll find out.”
I’d look to Spitzer to immediately ban email and sue all major companies providing email services, due to the great potential for email to be used to violate the privacy of other email users — even if the violations are due only to user error and have nothing at all to do with the companies themselves.
/sarcasm
From where I sit, I really, really don’t like Spitzer. Classic example of ’60s liberalism gone horribly wrong.
Interesting . . . he played the Eliot Ness card for all it was worth so that it was a lock for him to win for governor. It remains to be seen how he’ll do in an executive role.