Well, execdoofus1 HAD been complaining about his email read/not read status being messed up. He wasn’t very techy so I chalked it up to unfamiliarity with his mail client. This was ~20 years ago and we’d just gotten the mail system installed for execdoofuses.
I was young and impressionable. I never would have thought to read users mail so I didn’t think of anyone ELSE reading their mail. I mean. C’mon. They’re users. Users are lusers. Why destroy brain cells reading their mail? It’s like listening to conversations in the WalMart checkout lane. You lose IQ points doing that.
I was more careful after that. I very easily could have been fired over something I’d never done. The tricky part was catching the other guy w/o him knowing i’d been the one to do it. Turns out he’d been using another server as his own personal internet service provider. Using corporate equipment and bandwidth to run web sites for his own personal clients.
You are a hoot. Have made my afternoon.