At school we have been just recently given an internal e-mail system so we can send emails to each other. Now this sounds alright at first but you have to realise your email is your first letter of your name then a . then your last name then some long ass domain that takes you about 30 seconds to type out. For example, my email is:
a.fox@students.dvallcoll.vic.edu.au
Now don't bother trying to mail me since it's an internal system and won't even let you send in to it from the internet.
Now fair enough, I cant use it for sending school work since that's against the policy and if caught sending it back and forth we will have to re-do the piece of work in quesiton so it's back to our old methods for transferring files. Including Flash Drives of course.
Anyone I'd want to talk to on e-mail I can talk to in person since it's at school and internal system so there is really no need to send general messages to people. Sending spam/junk/mess around emails will get my account deleted so I can't even send fun e-mails to people. Makes me wonder what the hell they were thinking.
They have introduced a system to the school that nobody could possibly have a use or need for. The only thing I see it good for is sending comments back and forth between teachers and students, which once again could be done in person. Not to mention on the Intranet we already have a "Submit Work" feature that will deliver a message straight to a selected teachers E-Mail inbox.
Although my teacher told me they don't log the e-mails serverside I sincerly doubt this and your privacy isn't respected. Because quite frankly they don't need to give you privacy on a system & network enviroment entirely controlled by them. After all, computer access is a privledge not a right.
On the other hand, if I can find out the SMTP info for the network i'll be able to send fake mails to people and cause all sorts of havoc which will probably result in an instant-ban from the network and E-Mail account deletion for sure. Who else would have the 1337 skills required to do it at this school of all schools?
Ah well, i'm going to go play some San Andreas now while listening to my music on ITunes® (SELLING OUT!!)
Oh yea i'd like to close on a note that the blog is back!
