Do keep in mind, however, that laws restricting adult pornography vary according to jurisdiction and that you may end up in violation of another county, state, or country's laws about possession or distribution of adult pornography if you distribute it over the Internet. But such speech is a violation if it reaches the level of creating a hostile environment. Most junk e-mail comes from sites around the Internet, not from within Cornell. Cornell has no control over what these sites send and cannot distinguish unwanted junk mail from e-mail that people want to receive. A recommended approach to junk mail is that you simply delete it or ignore it.
Some people try to contact the sender and ask to be removed from the electronic mailing list.
Unfortunately, this doesn't necessarily guarantee you will be free from more invasive junk mail marketing in the future. As specified under CIT's Terms and Conditions Governing the Use of CIT Network IDs policy, your NetID and password are to be used only by you . They may even embarrass you by posting to a news group in your name or by posing as you in a chat session. For more information about restricted use of Cornell NetIDs and passwords, see Frequently Asked Questions about Network IDs . I copy articles from web sites all the time and use them for my papers.