created large personal distribution list (200+) to chat with other
students. We had students complain that they were receiving a large
number of email since the participants were replying to all.
I call it the "student spam machine" because students were sending email
to other students who did not want to participate in the series of chain
emails. I was not referring to infected machines being used as spam
relays.
We looked at other email options such as Gmail for the students but they
also limit the number of recipients under 200. I found a few schools
that have a written policy for the number of recipients per email and 50
recipients per email was common.=20
I'm currently looking for an easy to use distribution list server that
can be used by school groups with over 10 members. If you use one
please forward the information.
Jason
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I am curious as to how you determined that the result would be a
"student spam machine"? Please elaborate.=20
=20
Norman
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From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Jason Hyams
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Our decision was based on a lack of funds. It was either find the=20
money or reduce services. Turning our email system into a student=20
spam machine was deemed non-essential so we reduced services.
Jason Hyams
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On Feb 4, 2009, at 1:52 PM, "Norman Constantine"
<nconstantine@wakefieldschool.org
> wrote:
> So why not re-size the exchange server?
>
> Norman
>
> ________________________________
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> From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Jason=20
> Hyams
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> We limit the students to five. If you allow a larger number of=20
> allowed recipients the students will treat the email system as a=20
> chat system between large distribution groups. I have seen students=20
> with over 800 emails received within a 6 hour period from the large=20
> chat sessions. We had to decrease the number of allowed recipients=20
> or re-size the exchange server for that type of usage. After=20
> looking at the cost of upgrading the system we decided to decrease=20
> the number of allowed recipients.
>
> The faculty and staff are set to 1500 which allows them to email the=20
> entire school if needed.
> I'm currently setting up a list server for student club distribution=20
> list.
>
>
> Jason Hyams
> Director of Technology
> St. Agnes Academy
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: A forum for independent school educators on behalf of Janet=20
> Wilks
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>
>
> Does anyone have internally imposed limitations on the number of email
> recipients that can be designated for a single message?
>
>
>
>
>
> Janet Wilks
>
> Director of Development and Communications
>
> Salesian High School
>
> 510-234-4433 ext 1204
>
> jwilks@salesian.com
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