Keith's Weblog: Comments on "Rutgers has crazy e-mail administrators"

by Keith Gaughan

Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:47:12 +0000

With good reason. A mailserver at thehindu.co.in is sending emails to harvested email addresses and pretending to be from other people on that list. It's basically spamming viruses and spoofing who the sender is.

by Keith

Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:56:55 +0000

I just realized I forgot to link to Rutgers' page listing all their e-mail restrictions. I've updated the post.

Read the page and tell me it's not a little silly. A college acts like an ISP for its e-mail accounts. Can you imagine if Earthlink or AOL rejected all mail where the subject begins with "Hi"?

by Keith Gaughan

Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:00:26 +0000

I don't disagree that it's not silly and that the Techs need to be given slaps, but I can understand why they're doing it. Problem is, their filtering the emails badly.