Harassing email

[Reeder Norm]

We've used Internet Explorer and also Netscape with their 
administrator's modules.  You can if you wish, kill off mail using the 
regular browser mail feature and not define a mail server.  While 
people can still find the e-mail button or function, when they go to 
send it errors out.  Since they can't change any settings, they can't 
define an e-mail server.

This does not prevent Hot Mail or something similar as a Web function 
beyond the control of the browser.

Thanks
Norm Reeder
Torrance Public Library

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From: 	Steve Hooley![SMTP:hooleyss at gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU]
Sent: 	Tuesday, April 22, 1997 8:57 AM
To: 	Multiple recipients of list
Subject: 	Harassing email

        We've had nasty situations arising from the abuse of Netscape 
mailer
- creeps target someone and use the anonymous mailer to spam their 
accounts.
We got lucky and caught one guy who was stupid enough to email himself 
first
with a test message, not realizing he was saving the whole thing to
c:\netscape\mail\sent.
        Has anyone out there gotten to the point of suppressing 
Netscape
mailer? Did it work, or did the creeps just go to HotMail on the web 
or
using anonymous remailers? Any utilities that might help us out 
without
compromising privacy or actually spying? My suggestion was filtering 
and/or
ignoring the creeps, but with racist death threats it's hard to 
do.....

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