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Email Policy
Purpose
Electronic mail services are provided to enhance communication among
members of the university community, its alumni, and friends. Use of
Averett University e-mail services must be appropriate, responsible and
consistent with both the law and local standards of decency and taste.
Scope
All students, faculty, and staff are assigned an e-mail account. In
addition, alumni in good standing with the university are allowed to
maintain an Averett e-mail address for life. All other accounts will be
removed when you are no longer a student or employee of the university.
Responsibilities
Using an Averett University e-mail account carries with it both rights
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community are expected to:
- Check their Averett e-mail on a
regular basis as important course assignments and other university
information will be delivered to your Averett.edu e-mail address.
- Report any compromised e-mail
passwords or any suspected breach in security.
- Make backup copies of important
messages and other e-mail documents and keep those outside the e-mail
system.
- Delete large files and not keep
large amounts of e-mail on Averett’s e-mail servers. This
means that both the number of messages and the total space devoted to
storing your messages should be kept to a reasonable level. Each user
of Averett e-mail is responsible to delete any unsolicited and unwanted
e-mail messages (SPAM). The Computer Center will assist you in reducing
the size of your mail store upon request.
Strictly prohibited activities
Those using the Averett e-mail system agree not to:
- Read someone else’s
e-mail
- Look through files that do not
belong to them
- Use the Averett mail system for
personal gain or commercial reasons.
- Allow someone else to use their
e-mail account or password
- Use another person’s
e-mail account to send or read mail
- Cause a name other than their own
to appear in the From: or Reply-To: section.
- Consume network resources by
sending large attachments
- Send an e-mail containing the
same content to large numbers of people.
Privacy
Averett respects your right to privacy and will take appropriate steps
to maintain the confidentiality of your e-mail messages. Note, however,
that Averett cannot guarantee the confidentiality of your e-mail and
you should not assume that messages you send will be seen by only the
intended recipient. This is because it is necessary when correcting
technical problems or when investigating abuse of the e-mail system to
view messages in order to determine the source of a problem.
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