Re:

[Dick Jacobson <Dick.Jacobson () NDSU NODAK EDU>]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Joel Rosenblatt wrote:

Several of the policies cited in this discussion indicate that you may not
allow mail into your system from Hotmail or Yahoo or anyplace else that
allows non-name-based ids and/or do not know who their clients are.

That may be a stretch but I believe that is the question being asked.

> Our network use policy:
>
> <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/policy/network_use.html>
>
> Has the following section:
>
> 22. All messages must show accurately from where and from whom the message
> originated, except in the rare, specific cases where anonymous messages are
> invited.
>
> Joel Rosenblatt
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, AcIS
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel
>
> --On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:28 AM -0400 Gary Flynn <flynngn () JMU EDU>
> wrote:
>
> > Theresa Semmens wrote:
> > > We're looking at the possibility of providing in a policy that it would
> > > be an acceptable use violation to misrepresent who one is when
> > > communicating with a university official; particularly as it applies to
> > > employees.
> > >
> > > This is to get at the situation where someone uses an alias to
> > > communicate on a work related matter to someone else.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if any of you have such a restriction in place, or could
> > > point me to a policy with such a restriction. Any advice or suggestions
> > > would be helpful.
> >
> >
> > Our AUP has the following language:
> >
> > "# Not use university resources or computers attached to
> >   the university network to falsify identity, for example by:
> >
> >      * Providing "pass through" service
> >      * Sending electronic mail under forged headers"
> >
> > By strict interpretation, if an external computer
> > is used to send a forged message through the JMU
> > network and/or to a JMU account, that is use of
> > university resources.
> >
> >
> > http://www.jmu.edu/JMUpolicy/1207.shtml
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Gary Flynn
> > Security Engineer
> > James Madison University
>
>
>
> Joel Rosenblatt, Senior Security Officer & Windows Specialist, AcIS
> Columbia University, 612 W 115th Street, NY, NY 10025 / 212 854 3033
> http://www.columbia.edu/~joel

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