'Waste of time' mass e-mails slow down MSC network
Wendy Vair
Issue date: 5/8/09 Section: News
They have many programs to filter out as much spam as possible from outside mail and now they need to work on the on-campus mail too.
Brown said this whole processes of locking students e-mail accounts and having them visit his office is to educate them and hopefully keep them from sending out anymore mass e-mails.
The second reason mass e-mails are discouraged is because they slow down the network, Brown said.
Each e-mail has to go from the server to the computer and sending many e-mails slows down the mail server. There is a lot of space but it isn't unlimited, Brown said, if it becomes full, everything will shut down and be inaccessible to everyone. With Outlook and Webmail not working properly people can't do their jobs, he said.
Brown said many professors rely on the e-mail to send assignments to students and students e-mail assignments directly to their professors using Outlook and Webmail.
One of the most common subjects in mass e-mails is when a student has lost something on campus. Brown said he understands students need a way to communicate campus wide for matters like these and said that there are plans to develop a message board for all students to use. This however is on a long list of things to do and may or may not be developed this summer.
Brown said if the message board is easy to use and students know about it will be used and once it's completed it has to be marketed to the students. This will hopefully stop the students from relying on mass e-mails to contact people campus wide.
Brown said this whole processes of locking students e-mail accounts and having them visit his office is to educate them and hopefully keep them from sending out anymore mass e-mails.
The second reason mass e-mails are discouraged is because they slow down the network, Brown said.
Each e-mail has to go from the server to the computer and sending many e-mails slows down the mail server. There is a lot of space but it isn't unlimited, Brown said, if it becomes full, everything will shut down and be inaccessible to everyone. With Outlook and Webmail not working properly people can't do their jobs, he said.
Brown said many professors rely on the e-mail to send assignments to students and students e-mail assignments directly to their professors using Outlook and Webmail.
One of the most common subjects in mass e-mails is when a student has lost something on campus. Brown said he understands students need a way to communicate campus wide for matters like these and said that there are plans to develop a message board for all students to use. This however is on a long list of things to do and may or may not be developed this summer.
Brown said if the message board is easy to use and students know about it will be used and once it's completed it has to be marketed to the students. This will hopefully stop the students from relying on mass e-mails to contact people campus wide.