Re: Aggressive and misleading advertising

["Langford, Matthew" <Matthew.Langford () UNCO EDU>]

Thank you for your responses.  This has sparked an interesting debate in our leadership about freedom of speech, 
content censoring, and if we did block it would this be our responsibility to monitor and block future campaigns and 
what the criteria might be for that. I took the same basic stance that Michael presented.  I think we will come up with 
a guideline for the future that allows us the discretion to defend campus when SPAMers' step over a line.


Matt Langford

Chief Information Security Officer
IM&T – Office of Information Security

University of Northern Colorado
Campus Box 19
Greeley, CO 80639

O: 970-351-1420


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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Aggressive and misleading advertising

We had a similar issue with Wildfire this year. A handful of users complained about it.

Bryce Porter
Chief Information Security Officer
UNC Greensboro


On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 2:58 PM Langford, Matthew <Matthew.Langford () unco edu<mailto:Matthew.Langford () unco edu>> 
wrote:
We had a company <Wildfire> sending hundreds of emails an hour to our student population.  The advertising implies that 
this is a resource the belongs to campus before saying at the bottom they are unaffiliated with campus.  They also use 
two hooks I really don't care for.  They have acquired the students names in addition to their email address (which 
isn't published or shared) and they use the users first name in the subject line and second the message they share 
indicates a fire at the library as a "sample" message but they don't make that clear.

Have any others encountered this issue?  Did your institutions take any actions to halt the campaign?


Matt Langford

Chief Information Security Officer
IM&T – Office of Information Security

University of Northern Colorado
Campus Box 19
Greeley, CO 80639

O: 970-351-1420


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