West Lothian and email

[C R Ritson]

> I had an interesting conversation with someone you would have thought=20
> might know better, a couple of years ago. They insisted that=20
> every email=20
> anyone sent was "offered" to every PC in the world, and=20
> mainly rejected=20
> as unwanted, except for the intended recipient. Not unlike=20
> some sort of=20
> global "ethernet".

An outlook express user getting mixed up between personal mail and Usenet N=
ews delivered by flooding to neighbours perhaps? We had a number of acciden=
ts here where students had a personal mail folder (perhaps called csc202, a=
 module code) and a virtual folder  corresponding to a news group for discu=
ssion of the same module (ncl.cs.cs202). On a number of occasions, we think=
 the alleged misdelivery of sensitive mail to the newsgroup was simply fing=
er trouble when the student attempted to save a message.

Chris Ritson (Computing Officer and School Safety Officer)

Room 707, Claremont Tower,        EMAIL: C.R.Ritson@ncl.ac.uk
School of Computing Science,      PHONE: +44 191 222 8175
Newcastle University,             FAX  : +44 191 222 8232
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU.  WEB  : http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/ =