Student Cleared Of Charges She Spammed Teachers At Her University
from the common-sense-prevails dept
Back in December, we wrote about a student at Michigan State University, who was disciplined by the school for spamming, after she sent out an email to all of the professors at the school concerning a schedule change that would impact their class schedules in a future semester. One teacher complained, and the student was found to have violated the school's anti-spam policy, which said you couldn't email more than 30 people at a time. This seemed silly, as the message was clearly not spam in the traditional sense at all. After a widespread public outcry, and the EFF preparing a lawsuit on the student's behalf, the school has backed down and cleared the woman of any wrongdoing, and said that it will review and potentially change its anti-spam policies.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Another one way street
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A little redundant, don't you think? ;-)
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dumb != professor
egotistical != professor
So how the hell is it redundant? Sounds like some people need to go back to school...
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egotistical == professor
egotistical == dumb
So you could draw the line that links:
professor == dumb
So ...
Dumb egotistical professor is redundant
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AC - offended
2. Most of us could care less that you're offended.
3. Get over yourself.
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Teachers.....
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Penis
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spelling
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What?
Fucker isn't an adjective, is it? Is fucker a property of bitch?
Quick, get me an egotistical dumb English professor who specializes in obscenities!
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Teachers are not professors. Professors are generally who lectures at a University and most do not 'teach'. If it was a teacher with a BEd degree then all I can is I'm not surprised. Generally, professors are so wrapped up in their research that they rarely have time for such petty complaints. And I know of none that would do such a thing to harm a students career (esp. when they are helping the system).
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Spammer deleted
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...I shouldn't have fed the trolls.
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Reject emails
Instead of modifying the policy for future abusers, why not be proactive and prevent issues like this by reconfiguring their email system?
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You are of course very patient with some of your correspondents.
A small technical note: It is better to replace the offending message with "Message Deleted" or whatever, so that the comment numbers and URL's of the following comments remain stable.
This is something we've encountered more in the political blogs, because grown men of fifty and sixty sometimes lose their tempers and begin screaming at each other.
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