[concordia.announce] COMPUTER: Forbidden Computer Activities (reminder)
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Original-Author: an...@alcor.concordia.ca (Anne Bennett)
Current-maintainer: s...@alcor.concordia.ca (Sylvain Robitaille)
Certain activities are not permitted at Concordia University, and
engaging in them will likely result in your having your computer
account revoked.
In particular:
Chain letters are e-mail sent to many users, asking them in turn to
pass the letter on to more people. The letters may or may not involve
money, "luck", pyramid schemes, petitions for various causes, computer
virus warnings, or large files. Do not send out chain letters. If you
receive one, you may complain to the sender and to his or her
postmaster, but you may not pass it on, even if it threatens you with
bad luck. You have been warned.
"Spamming" means sending a netnews posting or e-mail message to
multiple newsgroups, mailing lists, or recipients, where the message
is not on topic for those groups or lists, or was not solicited by
those recipients. Typical subjects are "make money fast",
advertisements, and political or religious diatribes. If you receive a
spam-like mailing, or if you see spam on a newsgroup, you may complain
once to the sender and his or her postmaster -- do not mailbomb
anyone, and do not make threats. And most importantly, do not post or
mail out spam; if you do, it will cause numerous messages of protest
to be sent from all over the world to your newsmaster and postmaster,
who will then ensure that your account is suspended for a lo-o-o-ong
time.
Commercial advertisements of any kind may not be posted or mailed from
your account at Concordia; in fact, you must not use the Concordia
computer facilities for commercial purposes at all. (You may, however,
try to sell off your old textbooks, computer equipment, and other
items, or look for a roommate or a sublet, or engage in other such
personal activities without problem.)
Engaging in any illegal activity is, well, illegal, and we don't allow
it on our computers. In particular, the exchange of "Warez" (pirated
software) will result in the revocation of your account, and possibly
criminal charges as well. The same goes for other copyright
violations, including posting scanned images for which you do not own
the copyright, and for threats, harassment, and other abusive
electronic communications.
IITS requires that the sender of any e-mail or netnews message (or any
other electronic commmunication) be clearly identified and accurate.
An attempt to forge a message to appear to come from any address but
yours is likely to get your computer account revoked.
Any attempt to break computer security will result in a swarm of angry
sysadmins investigating your account and -- guess what? -- having it
revoked.
Sharing your account with anyone else is a violation of Computing
Services policy, which will result in... need I say more? Also, be
aware that account holders are held responsible for all activities
originating from their accounts. Thus, any unauthorized activity on
your computer account may result in... I'm sure you get the picture by
now!
Of course, there are many other ways to contravene IITS policies and
to abuse the net; we never cease to be amazed at the creativity of
some people. Our response, however, is boringly predictable. :-)
This file is available at
http://alcor.concordia.ca/general_info/forbidden.html.
The Policy on Computing Facilities is available at
http://web2.concordia.ca/Legal_Counsel/policies/english/VRS/VRS-30.htm
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