College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses 452
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."
Won't someone think of the... (Score:2, Funny)
Shelter Rock Jewish Center or Serangoon Junior College or
Samuel Robert James Colbert?
hopes dashed (Score:5, Funny)
What if my initials are... (Score:5, Funny)
Publicity (Score:4, Funny)
Legal Eagles (Score:5, Funny)
I can't believe they found a lawyer who thought this was a good idea.
I can't believe they only found one.
No problem dude (Score:4, Funny)
No problem dude, I'll just change my email to FU_KenFiori@gmail.com .
Single Female Lawyer (Score:5, Funny)
Sure would be a shame... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Greed is Good (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/beverages/coffee-tea/coffee-taste-test-3-07/overview/0307_coffee_ov_1.htm [consumerreports.org] 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.
Re:No problem dude (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....
Great layoff prospect here. (Score:3, Funny)
The State of California is doing some massive budget cuts. Santa Rosa is cutting so deep that they're turning off street lights in the middle of blocks to save money. Looks like we found some people who don't have much to do and can be laid off.
I call dibs on the email address!!! (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!
Re:Of course they did... (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know what bugs me more.
The insistence on shit like:
(s)he
s/he
he/she
him/her
latin@
etc.
Or the counter movement where authors intentionally choose the female pronoun, or alternate between the two, use words like "womyn", etc.
Either way, I do my part by using "they/their" for some singulars ("If your friend touches you where you don't want them to, they are not your friend."), and in this case, I would have said:
A lawyer will take any case it can make a buck on.
Hell, I think I'll be using "it" in place of he/she/him/her/etc. from now on.
Re:Of course they did... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Greed is Good (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Greed is Good (Score:3, Funny)
Yes but you get that kind of damage from McDonald's coffee even when it's cold...
Re:Greed is Good (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Greed is Good (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Greed is Good (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Greed is Good (Score:5, Funny)
If inability to reproduce qualifies one for the Darwin Awards, I think 90% of the Linux user-base can make it to the finals.
Logical fallacy? (Score:4, Funny)
Can we strike down the assumption that in order for
a particular substance to be agreeable to your palate then it must also be judged crotch-friendly?
I like vinegar on my fries. I don't feel the need to test the viability of this combination by pouring dilute acid on my wang. I like hot peppers. I don't need to do quality control on these by first rubbing them on my groin. (I do it because I can.)
Re:Academic egos are like the Hindenberg (Score:3, Funny)
What an utter moron. Must be a lot of fun to work for this woman. I think our nationwide unemployment rate is about to go up by 1.
Re:Greed is Good (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Greed is Good (Score:3, Funny)
This is the US we're talking about here.
As a brit who occasionally has to travel abroad, it is damn-near impossible to get a good cup of tea in the US because tea really needs to be made with boiling water. Boiling. Not "very hot". Boiling.
Seriously, has concept of a kettle (meaning a jug which holds about 3 pints of water and has a heating element built in which will boil the water and cut-out when there's sufficient steam to operate a cutout switch) not made it over there?
Re:Greed is Good (Score:3, Funny)
You have to be stupid to get a Darwin Award. Now, Windows fanbois, they're another story...