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Student Email Spam
Prevention Guidelines - 4 Important Steps
Students,
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) provides email services to students in order to facilitate communication between students, instructors, college administrators and others. The reliability of this service is of utmost importance because email messages often contain information that is essential to a student’s academic success.
The VCCS employs spam filters to reject a large portion of the spam directed at student accounts, but it is not possible to remove all unwanted messages To avoid having spam fill your e-mail inbox, please be careful about whom you give your student email address to. It is important to understand that only 40 MB of storage space is provided for each student mailbox. While this much space is adequate for normal student use, it can be used up quickly if one is not careful. A full mailbox cannot receive new messages.
To insure that important messages from your college, your instructors and your classmates are delivered reliably, we strongly encourage you to follow these guidelines:
1. Be extremely careful about giving out your student email address. It is often difficult to know which sites will share your address with spammers.
2. Check your account and delete old and/or no longer needed messages on a regular basis, including semesters in which you are not enrolled.
3. Empty your Trash. Deleted messages are moved to the Trash folder but are not removed from the system. Each time you open your email account, click the Empty link on the left side of the screen to completely remove these messages.
4. Avoid using your student email address on Internet sites such as FaceBook, MySpace, and Xanga.com. Email accounts associated with profiles on these sites often receive hundreds or even thousands of messages and spam. This will cause your mailbox to fill up very quickly. If you have a profile at one of these sites, use another email address such as a Yahoo (http://mail.yahoo.com/), Hotmail (http://www.hotmail.com) or Gmail (http://mail.google.com/) account.
We appreciate the opportunity to serve you and hope your experience with the Virginia Community College System is a positive one.
Virginia Community College System
Information Technology Services