Report for Group Discussion #3: Spam Filtering

This class was the last class of Integrated Skills in this semester. We talked about moral dilemma in small groups again.

In the story, "I" am the network administrator for a rather large company. I have a young family and need my job to support them. As part of my responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the emails for the organization. This just means occasionally allow through emails for staff members that have been accidentally blocked by the spam filters. One day, a staff member asks me to get release an email. It is standard procedure except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good friend of mine. As a part of the procedure I need to manually open up the email to ensure that it is not spam, so I do and I discover it is not spam. However, I also find that the email has come from her lover. There is no doubt that she has been having an affair for some time now. My initial action is to call my friend and tell him about the email, but I quickly remember that the company policy is very strict about revealing the contents of emails of staff members regardless of the contents and unless some one's life is in immediate danger. What do I do?

I think I'll talk to the wife of a very good friend of mine at first. In addition, I'll explain why I know that she has been having an affair now, and persuade the wife to stop having an affair for my friend. If she won't stop seeing her lover, and what is more tries to expose my unacceptable revealing to my company, it would also lead to make her adultery known to my friend and many other people. I think this is one of answers that do not hurt anyone in this case. However, this answer applies to the case where my friend is really in love with his wife. If the friend does not love his wife anymore, I'll talk the truth to my friend secretly and leave it to his judgement.