My credit card company and two of my banks all allow me to view statements in plain text/HTML and PDF, which I can easily save and archive. I'm sure that this would be a standard feature with most financial institutions' online services today.
Spencer is the associated students director at the university, which is apparently part of the student government. So it is very reasonable to think that this kind of email is being sent "by University offices." Furthermore, the communication was directly relevant to university business (restructuring the academic year).
There are two issues that I see, one with the policy and one with the relevance of the policy: The communication is relevant to university business, but it is inviting, not requiring some official action by each and every recipient, which seems to be the point of the language of this policy.
However, the email was not sent from a university account! It was sent from a personal account of Spencer's (GMail, according to the Disciplinary Allegations form), and so I fail to see how their policies apply in the obvious way.
It was an impact probe that was dropped from a lunar sattelite, according to this article. Chandrayaan was apparently the name of the sattelite, not the probe, which is why it could land a probe despite not being recognized as sovereign in International circles.
CBC News: Now with more information and fewer typos than TFA!
Be that as it may, bcrowell says, "I don't recall being presented with a choice about whether to opt in or out of marketing emails when I made the purchase." Either he missed the check box or the AC doesn't know what they are talking about. Opt-out is far better than not providing an option.
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My credit card company and two of my banks all allow me to view statements in plain text/HTML and PDF, which I can easily save and archive. I'm sure that this would be a standard feature with most financial institutions' online services today.
Spencer is the associated students director at the university, which is apparently part of the student government. So it is very reasonable to think that this kind of email is being sent "by University offices." Furthermore, the communication was directly relevant to university business (restructuring the academic year). There are two issues that I see, one with the policy and one with the relevance of the policy: The communication is relevant to university business, but it is inviting, not requiring some official action by each and every recipient, which seems to be the point of the language of this policy. However, the email was not sent from a university account! It was sent from a personal account of Spencer's (GMail, according to the Disciplinary Allegations form), and so I fail to see how their policies apply in the obvious way.
It was an impact probe that was dropped from a lunar sattelite, according to this article. Chandrayaan was apparently the name of the sattelite, not the probe, which is why it could land a probe despite not being recognized as sovereign in International circles.
CBC News: Now with more information and fewer typos than TFA!
Be that as it may, bcrowell says, "I don't recall being presented with a choice about whether to opt in or out of marketing emails when I made the purchase." Either he missed the check box or the AC doesn't know what they are talking about. Opt-out is far better than not providing an option.