e-mail concerns (long)

[MaryAnn Rizzo <rizzoma@PRIMENET.COM>]

Hi fellow netters,
  I sent this information to Peter and I think I will now send it to the
group. If you leave e-mail messages or other information on your machines,
ANYONE can send out replies to the messages without a password. In
addition, if a person knows the pop and the smtp for any
location/ISP/internet connection (like aol or your school), they can put
these into any machine and send e-mail messages without a password. There
is no way to require a password to send e-mail (only to pick it up).
  With the proper headers, this improper sending can be traced to the IP
address of the machine that sent the message. Because of this, I stress two
things to the teachers in the internet briefings:
1. Save your e-mail to a disk which you take with you. Do not leave it on
the machine.
2. Keep a log record of who was on what computer at what time. If a student
(or other person) sends abusive e-mail from that IP address, you can track
down who was on that computer at that time. Obviously, this works best in a
static IP environment. Where IPs are assigned by a network server, this
could get tricky. You should talk to your computer guru for how to track
that person.

  To see where your messages come from (if you are in Eudora), click on
"blah blah blah." I have sent myself messages (from my school's e-mail to
myself) and tracked it. I discovered this by accident and do not broadcast
it to students. However, I do indicate to students that we can (and will)
track down abusive e-mail messages traced to our school.

  Hope this helps. I tried to write this clearly. If you have any
questions, I can answer some of them (some of them I may have to ask my
connections to answer).

MaryAnn Rizzo


MaryAnn "the librarian" Rizzo
District Library Media Specialist
Bisbee Unified School District Re-2
Bisbee, AZ 85603
rizzoma@primenet.com

"We need to educate our children for their future and not for our past" A.
C. Clarke

"Keep smiling -- it keeps everyone wondering about you."  M. Rizzo

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