A person looking for one of our students can do a look-up to see that the student exists. Then they can put in their name and return e-mail address. A message is sent by the system to the student with a message that the person listed below is trying to contact them, and that if they want to respond they may by sending to the enclosed e-mail address. In this way, we do not disclose the e-mail of the student. Inquiries from within our domain can see name, telephone, class year, mailing address, and e-mail address, unless one or more items are suppressed.
External inquiries see only name, class year, and e-mail at most.
John Stuckey Director of University Computing Washington and Lee University Villanova University assigns an e-mail address to all students when they come to the University. In that case their e-mail address will not be displayed on the online student directory. The information in the directory follows the students' wishes with regards to privacy so that if they suppress information about their e-mail address then it is not accessible via finger. In any event, account names are not accessible with this version of finger so e-mail addresses cannot be inferred from finger information.