While MLWGS technology policy has always forbidden student accounts from receiving or sending messages to or from web-based e-mail, this regulation is now actually in effect.
Software now blocks students from opening web-based emails sent to their school accounts. This means students can no longer email things to their school account from their home accounts.
Email providers such as AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, etc. are all considered web-based and are therefore blocked.
Ms. Patti Chappell, MLWGS Director of Technology, attributes the change to the amount of spam web-based emails bring into the server.
“The amount of spam we get is unbelievable. We don’t have a lot of resources in terms of personnel to bring the network back up if something attacks [it].”
“I understand most students have other accounts; however, we give the students email accounts. The expectation is that they will suffice,” said Ms. Chappell.
To some this policy seems strange.
“I find it ironic that I can’t send emails to myself from my home account but I can log onto Gmail from school,” said Zoe Kemp (’10).
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