Tracking Messages in a Mentoring Environment

A computer-readable medium embodying computer program code for monitoring e-mail messages between an adult mentor and a juvenile protégé to ensure proper mentoring, the computer program code comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

• presenting to a reviewer a computer-based activity tracking form that is populated with data from an underlying relational database, wherein the underlying relational database includes a content of e-mail messages addressed to an adult mentor from a juvenile protégé and a content of e-mail messages addressed to the juvenile protégé from the adult mentor, and wherein the underlying relational database includes a status of e-mail messages between the adult mentor and juvenile protégé as determined by an e-mail interceptor;
• displaying a status of an e-mail, between the adult mentor and the juvenile protégé, which has been intercepted by the e-mail interceptor;
• in response to a displayed status indicating that the e-mail has not been reviewed by the reviewer, blocking transmission of the e-mail to an intended recipient;
• in response to the displayed status indicating that the e-mail has been reviewed by the reviewer, enabling transmission of the e-mail to the intended recipient;
• tracking a total number of e-mail messages transmitted between the adult mentor and the juvenile protégé;
• in response to the total number of e-mail messages exceeding a predetermined number, sending a warning message to an authority figure;
• and
• in response to the total number of e-mail messages being less than another predetermined number, sending the warning message to the authority figure, wherein the warning message describes a sender of the e-mail, the intended recipient of the e-mail, an e-mail address of the sender, and an e-mail address of the intended recipient, and wherein the computer-readable medium is a computer-readable storage device.

A method for monitoring e-mail messages to ensure proper mentoring, the method comprising:

• presenting to a reviewer a computer-based activity tracking form that is populated with data from an underlying relational database, wherein the underlying relational database includes a content of e-mail messages between a sender and a receiver, and wherein the underlying relational database includes a status of e-mail messages between the sender and the receiver as determined by an e-mail interceptor;
• displaying a status of an e-mail that has been intercepted by the e-mail interceptor;
• in response to a displayed status indicating that the e-mail has not been reviewed by the reviewer, blocking transmission of the e-mail to the receiver;
• in response to the displayed status indicating that the e-mail has been reviewed by the reviewer, enabling transmission of the e-mail to the receiver;
• tracking a total number of e-mail messages transmitted between the sender and the receiver;
• in response to the total number of e-mail messages exceeding a predetermined number, sending a warning message to an authority figure;
• and
• in response to the total number of e-mail messages being less than another predetermined number, sending the warning message to the authority figure, wherein the warning message describes a transmitter of the e-mail, an intended recipient of the e-mail, an e-mail address of the transmitter, and an e-mail address of the intended recipient.