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
Derek Harding wrote:
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?
Short of actually reading every e-mail (which pupils would be exceedingly unhappy with and undoubtably start to abuse the system), I don't think there's much you can do. Probably best thing is, if someone complains, revoke the offenders e-mail access. If, however, you're running an SMTP server to handle mail, it's so easy to fake, that you can't actually be sure it was the "sender" who really sent it, as oppose to someone else bearing a grudge who wants to get the "sender" into trouble. Give any pupil a potential to abuse the system, and they will as much as possible. Just some random thoughts. Dan -- dankolb@ox.compsoc.net Oxford University Computer Society Secretary --I reserve the right to be completely wrong about any comments or opinions expressed; don't trust everything you read above--
Derek Harding wrote: Short of actually reading every e-mail (which pupils would be exceedingly unhappy with and undoubtably start to abuse the system), I don't think there's much you can do. Probably best thing is, if someone
Some of them will deny anything, even with the evidence in front of them.
complains, revoke the offenders e-mail access. If, however, you're running an SMTP server to handle mail, it's so easy to fake, that you can't actually be sure it was the "sender" who really sent it, as oppose
Check out rfc931. There is even Windows software to handle this, surprising as Windows following any standards might be.
to someone else bearing a grudge who wants to get the "sender" into trouble.
Give any pupil a potential to abuse the system, and they will as much as possible.
Something about which quite a few software suppliers, including some who definitly should know better are woefully ignorant. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763
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Dan Kolb
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Derek Harding
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Mark Evans