Spam Filtering

You are the network administrator for a rather large company.You have a young family and need your job to support them.As part of your responsibility as a network administrator is to monitor the emails for the organization.Usually this just means occasionally allow through emails for staff members that have been accidentally blocked by the spam filters.

One day you get a helpdesk request from a staff member asking for an email to get released.Normally it is standard procedure except this time the request has come from the wife of a very good friend of yours.You recognize the name on the helpdesk request so quickly attend to the problem.As part of the procedure you need to manually open up the email to ensure that it is not spam,so you do and you discover that in certainly is not spam.You find that it is actually an email to your friends wife from her lover.You scan the rest of the contents of the email and there is no doubt that she has been having an affair for the some time now.



You release the email,but you can not decide what to do.You are initial reaction is to call your friend up and tell him about the email,however you quickly realize that company policy is very strict about revealing the contents of confidential emails of staff members regardless of the contents and unless someone's life is in immediate danger,under no circumstances are you permitted to reveal the information.

In any case you know that revealing this information presents great risk,because even if you do not do it directly,there is a good chance that the dots will be joined somewhere along the line and you will be found out.However you feel that by not telling you friend that you are aiding his wife get away with adultery and this troubles you greatly.

What do you do?
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new word
administrator:
a person whose job is to manage and organize the public or business affairs of a company or an institution
rather:
used to mean ‘fairly’ or ‘to some degree’, often when you are expressing slight criticism, disappointment or surprise
spam:
advertising material sent by email to people who have not asked for it
helpdesk:a service, usually in a business company, that gives people information and help, especially if they are having problems with a computer
scan:
to look quickly but not very carefully at a document, etc
affair:
a sexual relationship between two people, usually when one or both of them is married to sb else
initial:
happening at the beginning; first
confidential:
trusted with private or secret information
regardless:
paying no attention, even if the situation is bad or there are difficulties
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In our group,no one is going to tell one's friend because company policy is very strict about revealing the contents of confidential emails of staff members regardless of the contents,I have a young family and I need my job to support my family members.
However,I feel that by not telling me that I am aiding his wife get away with adultery and this troubles me greatly.My group member expressed her view that it is natural for husband and wife to be romantically involved with another person.I think that this view is extreme but I sympathize with her way of thinking. She thinks that husband and wife have to get through a crisis of the extramarital love affair.In addition,there is an opinion　of blame-the-victim-mentality.
I think that there is no advantage of telling him about his wife's adultery because I wouldn't be surprised if I ruined someone's happy family life.In addition,I know that in any case her husband will know that.But if I know my friend's steady's infidelity,I may want to tell my friend so in this case I inform him in a nice way that his wife is unfaithful to him.However,there is an opinion in my group that if I tell him or her in that manner,he or she is confused to a much greater.Were I in my friend's place,I do not know what to do when I hear that.So I have not decided yet.Just give me a little more time and I also think that whether I tell my friend or not depends on circumstances that time.