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College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses

Posted by kdawson on from the unclear-on-which-side-of-the-at-sign-it's-at dept.

superdave98 writes "As a sign that a CIO has way too much time on his hands, Santa Rosa Junior College is sending emails threatening lawsuits to staff and students who have the letters 'SRJC' in their private email addresses. They contend that people could be confused and think these are official email addresses. Sure, I suppose people who fall for 419 scams probably could be fooled, but not any reasonable humans. I can't believe they found a lawyer who thought this was a good idea."

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  1. What if my initials are... by ganjadude · · Score: 5, Funny

    SRJC Sam Robert Jacob Christinson? Can I sue the college for using my initals in their offical email? Someone may confuse me with them

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    have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
  2. Sure would be a shame... by Morphine007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The two people mentioned in the article as being behind the policy are:

    MK Rudolph - mrudolph@santarosa.edu and

    K Fiori - kfiori@santarosa.edu

    The latter created the policy (director of computing services) and the former has her weight behind it (VP Academic Affairs). Just figured it'd be useful information to have. I'm in no way suggesting that all of slashdot go out and register variants of hotGritzIn_SJRC@gmail.com and youSuck_SJRC@yahoo.com or anything like that. And using hundreds of those emails to spam the everliving bejeezus out of their mailboxes would be nearly as morally questionable as suing your own students for making similar addresses. So I'd never suggest that either.

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    Oh god, that woman is John Romero!
  3. Re:Greed is Good by futuresheep · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/beverages/coffee-tea/coffee-taste-test-3-07/overview/0307_coffee_ov_1.htm Your are apparently in the minority. CR's taste test found McDonald's coffee was the best.

    I trust Consumer Reports to rate food about as much as I trust Cook's Illustrated to rate chainsaws.

  4. Re:No problem dude by Nihixul · · Score: 5, Funny

    No problem dude, I'll just change my email to FU_KenFiori@gmail.com .

    Florida University would like to have a word with you....

  5. I call dibs on the email address!!! by nomel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Woot! I grabbed JohnDoe_SRJC@yahoo.com!

    1. Check slashdot
    2. Grab example email address from news article
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

    I'm sitting here watching the yahoo inbox, just waiting for the bucket loads of money to start pouring in...hahaha...SUCKERS!