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Frequently Asked Questions About Email, Spam and
Privacy
- How can I ensure that I do not contribute to Electronic
Junk Mail or SPAM?
- How do I stop Junk Mail or Abusive email?
- How do I protect my privacy?
How can I ensure that I do not
contribute to Electronic Junk Mail or SPAM?
- The web is filled with junk mail. Do not contribute to it.
- Remember what is interesting to one person, may not be interesting
to another.
- If you are a member of a public or private distribution list,
only send email that will inform a majority of the people on this
list serve.
- Incessant reminders about coming events tend to be annoying.
If you want to publicize and event by mass email, send one message
will in advance and then another a day or two before the event.
- Chain letters, political advertising, solicitations for non-college
sponsored organizations or causes, proselytizing and any commercial
venture are examples of unacceptable use of North Central's email
system.
How do I stop Junk Mail or Abusive
email?
- If you receive unsolicited, unwanted email from a member of
the NCC community, filter
the messages to Trash. If you are getting email of a different
nature than does not relate to college business, then REPLY to
that individual, stating that you do not want to receive email
of that type from the individual. SAVE the original email and
your REPLY as evidence. If the email continues, consider filing
a complaint to the appropriate entity, the Assistant Vice President
of Human Relations, the Dean of Students, or the Dean of the Faculty.
Remember if you believe that your rights have been violated by
another's use of technology in a form of harassment, whether verbal,
pictorial or any other means, please report it.
- If you receive unsolicited/unwanted email from a known vendor
that you have done business with or from a legitimate group, then
REPLY to them with a "take me off your list" and that
should get results.
- If you receive unsolicited/unwanted spam type email from someone
unknown to you outside the North Central community-DELETE IT.
DO NOT REPLY TO IT. Replying only provide proof that the "spammer"
has found a currently used email account. Your account address
may then be sold to dozens or hundreds of other spammers and junk
mail merchants.
- Do not participate in CHAT groups, NEWSGROUPS, online "Surveys,"
etc. as most tend to then flood you with junk email.
- Once the flood of junk email has started, there is very little
that you can do to get rid of it other than filtering
it or using the DELETE feature.
- If you choose to subscribe to a listserv be sure that you print
out and save the instructions on how to Unsubscribe should you
find that the list does not meet your needs.
- If you are getting junk mail in your personal off-campus email
account (AOL, Worldnet, Hotmail, etc.) then you may just want
to change your email address. Outside providers allow you to do
this easily. Make sure that you inform all of your contacts about
your new email address.
How do I protect my privacy?
- Protect your password! Once someone has your password, they
can read your email and they can send email from your name.
- LOGOFF! If you do not logoff, you can be the victim of someone
using your computer to send offensive messages that come from
you!
- Email is never private. Any recipient can forward what you send
to "the world." In addition, under certain circumstances,
see Acceptable Use of Technology, the College may read your email.
- Deleting email does not mean that it is gone forever. Email
is backed up nightly and stored on tape. If you don't want it
saved, copied, forwarded or shared, then delete it daily before
you leave.
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