Student Handbook: Campus Computing

Relevant Excerpt

Inappropriate use includes:

• Sending messages in such a way that makes them appear as though they originated from a different person or that deliberately misrepresent yourself or your authority
• Sending messages that are severely abusive or threaten an individual’s safety or for sexual, ethnic, religious, minority, or other harassment
• Deliberately flooding a user’s mailbox with automatically generated mail
• Sending mail that is deliberately designed to interfere with proper mail delivery or access
• Attempting to gain access to another person’s files regardless of the intent or result
• Broadcasting messages to large numbers of recipients without regard to the relevance of the material
• Sending messages or engaging in other conduct intended to suppress or disrupt debate
• Sending messages that are designed to interfere with normal system operation