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ExamplesAcceptable behavior: You are an officer in a recognized campus organization, and (with approval from the appropriate University authority) send e-mail to all the members of the organization regarding a coming event. Someone " spams" you; you refrain from reply, but report the matter to the appropriate authority. Acceptable behavior: You want to post a follow-up to an item on a newsgroup you read, but you notice the previous poster has sent that item to several dozen newsgroups. You take action which sends your posting only to the intended newsgroup. Acceptable behavior: On your personally owned computer connected via the University network, you run a peer-to-peer application that allows you to set limits on uploads. You set the default upload limit to zero, so others on the Internet will not be using University bandwidth to get copies of files on your computer hard drive. Acceptable behavior: You create and run a script that accepts information from a web form and sends the information to a set single address or fixed set of recipient addresses. Violation: You create and/or run e-mail server software configured to accept e-mail messages from arbitrary senders and deliver to arbitrary recipients (an open relay). Violation: You forward to several dozen newsgroups a message urging people to e-mail their friends regarding a child suffering from a terminal illness, as the American Cancer Society will donate two cents for each e-mail message to research to cure the form of the disease from which the child suffers. (This is an actual example of inaccurate information that makes the rounds regularly; the American Cancer Society is not involved and identifies the posting/mailing as bogus.) Violation: Someone has "spammed" several electronic mailing lists to which you subscribe, so you "get him back" by sending seven hundred identical derisive mail messages to the person's e-mail address. About retaliation: Retaliation in kind is not appropriate behavior, as it continues to victimize other people. There are appropriate avenues for protest, which will not violate University guidelines. See “Where do I turn if I am victimized or believe I have a problem with violation of the Guidelines?” later in this document. Previous Section  |
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