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--