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College threatens to sue students over personal email addresses

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Re: College threatens to sue students over personal email addresses

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Even if I try to see their point of view, there are some logical flaws here.

One, "_SRJC" could mean anything, and they can't claim a right to every imaginable use of the acronym.

Two, they seem to think that E-mail is a heck of a lot more secure than it is. They're worried that a sender's address could "look like" something from their University. The reality, apparently not known to them, is that an entire E-mail can be forged, up to the point of appearing to originate from one of their own "legitimate" addresses. So if true E-mail security is their problem, they should first consider not doing important things through E-mail, before filing lawsuits.

Re: College threatens to sue students over personal email addresses

#6
I'm hoping it gets to a lawsuit so that it can either be shot down to give precedent to keep this kind of ridiculousness at bay or actually seen through so that I can start making SRJC email addresses to see exactly how they expect to enforce this rule.

Re: College threatens to sue students over personal email addresses

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Even if I try to see their point of view, there are some logical flaws here. One, "_SRJC" could mean anything, and they can't claim a right to every imaginable use of the acronym. Two, they seem to think that E-mail is a heck of a lot more secure than it is. They're worried that a sender's address could "look like" something from their University. The reality, apparently not known to them, is that an entire E-mail ca…

agreed. --dhimes_cmprlaw@gmail.com
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