Usenet at work

You'd have thought they'd have put "because I fucking feel like it" in the
list, though ...

 

"**** YOU, I won't do what you tell me..... Mr Paperclip."

 

or "It's a secret".
or "I've fucking something up badly, and am desperately hoping a
reboot will help".
or "my PC's acting funny and the helpdesk told me this would fix it".

 

"it's worked with all the other versions of Windows"

 

Depends on the firewall. It may be that all NNTP traffic goes through a
NNTP aware proxy server, which may be logging the groups, etc.

Alternatively if they've got an IDS in place, then they could look at
everything.

You've had your warning from your colleague, but clearly you think the
risk is still worth it.

 

True - missed a non there ;-)

 

The first draft of my contract at a previous job stipulated that
"Use of company computers is prohibited".

They wouldn't let me sign it