There is not much you can do in advance I think - privacy of emails may also be an issue. We have an internal mail server and I archive all incoming and outgoing emails so in principle I could track a thread back to source and tie in with terminal user logs. In practice, many students use Hotmail et al, so there is no record of their emails at all. I agree that sanction after the event may be the best answer. John Low St Mary's Hall School At 21:08 15/06/00 +0100, you wrote:

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

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