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Re: email threats
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:11:24 -0400
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:52:53 EDT, Mark DeSerio said:
Does anyone have procedures in place regarding email threats to their college? Such as certain key words in a message would get forwarded to personnel to handle the email threat. This would be bomb threats and threats to employees. The recent occurrences at other colleges that have be in the news our college is interested in what other schools have in place for email threats.
On the rare occasions that something like that hits our security@ or abuse@ addresses, we just throw it over the fence to the police department and let *them* figure out what to do. I don't think we've had a e-mailed bomb threat, but we *do* have the occasional user that forwards threatening/stalking/abusive mail to ourabuse@ address. It's almost always just one small thing in a whole soap opera of a relationship gone bad - the police department already had procedures for dealing with "crazed psycho ex-whatever" long before any of them e-mailed hate mail, so we let them handle it.
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- Re: email threats Bob Bayn (Sep 04)
- Re: email threats Roger Safian (Sep 04)
- Re: email threats Valdis Kletnieks (Sep 05)
- Re: email threats Joel Rosenblatt (Sep 05)