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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 12:45)
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Not strictly on topic or een relavent for QOTW as it is a question, But:I'm sick of people using my university's mailing list to find rooms and recover lost mobile phones and cameras, so is it ok to use 419 baiting style techniques against them?
Get them to wait outside the library at silly hours, arrange viewings to random houses, that sort of thing.
Freshers week starts on Saturday so answers by then would be appreciated.
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AS, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 15:48,
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Do you have email admin access?If so you can block user types from seeing parts of the address book (like mass email address's) and even resrtict the number of recipitents in an email.
Just make sure you don;t do it too often to your Boss ;)
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 15:58,
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Yes.I'm certain my former uni (former cos i got kicked out for being thick) had a notice board thingy for those sorts of messages.
And people who feel the need to email the entire student body asking for a Blackberry charger should be shot.
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Having a list open to the whole student body is asking for trouble.My uni locked it down so only staff could send to the uni-wide lists (JCR exec could send to lists in their own college) but it would appear that spoofing the sender address allowed a message to be sent out to the entire uni. Made the student newspaper, some pretty high-up staff got involved, and I don't think they caught the culprit.
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idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Fri 25 Sep 2009, 1:26,
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