Many of our students have e-mail facilities from home - so very few use our e-mail service, and that is batched out once per day (they know that their e-mail is "postcard security", and is likely to be read for precisely that reason. {it isn't, but that is not the point}). Most of the e-bullying happens outside. We do not support internal e-mails. Our biggest problem has been the e-mail services which allow users to masquerade as someone else - e.g. my e-mail address is SysAdm@edgecoll.clara.net - they could use SysAdm@edgecol.clara.net :( Regards, Paul ----------

From: Derek Harding To: suse schools Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Cyber bullying Date: 15 June 2000 21:08

Just wonder if anyone does anything active to prevent cyber bullying and stalking of students by students? We have a policy of no sexist, racist or offensive e-mails (students only have internal e-mail) and we test e-mail content for obvious abuse of English but no true filtering. E-mail is a powerful weapon for bullies and I wonder if we should take a more firm action to prevent it. Any thoughts? -- Best wishes, Derek Harding derek@lagham.zetnet.co.uk