However, if violations of policies are discovered, they will be reported to the appropriate Vice President. Chain letters and other forms of Internet mass mailings are also not allowed. A computer account, electronic mail account or voice mail account assigned to an individual must not be used by others without explicit permission from the instructor or administrator requesting the account. The individual is responsible for the proper use of the account, including proper password protection. Information system accounts which expire, along with the files in the expired accounts, will be deleted.
Accounts expire in accordance with the terms of the account.
E-mail and voice mail messages that are older than the limit set by the system administrator will be deleted. Software systems that allow access through the network to the contents of microcomputer files will not be installed on a microcomputer without the approval of the faculty or staff member to whom the microcomputer is assigned, and if installed, will not allow access to the contents of files except under the direct control of that faculty or staff member. Special support software may be installed on University computing systems in order to support resource usage accounting, security, network management, hardware and software inventory, and updating functions and to provide better support to personnel. No one should deliberately attempt to degrade the performance of an information system or to deprive authorized personnel of resources or access to any University information system. Loopholes in information systems security systems or knowledge of a special password should be reported to the Computing Center as soon as possible and are not to be used to damage information systems, obtain extra resources, take resources from another user, gain access to systems or use systems for which proper authorization has not been given.