Unsolicited or Spam Email
Email access and various aliases are provided to ease dissemination of information to all students and staff of James Cook University but their use should fall within acceptable use policy.
Mass emailing disrupts normal activity. We understand that certain parties may see the University as offering a group of potential interested clients but the University Community objects strongly to unsolicited or "spam" email.
James Cook University users who disrupt email delivery to the university by misuse of the JCU email system or aliases will be dealt with under the Usage Guidelines and Penalties. James Cook University users who seek to disrupt the email delivery to other sites or misuse facilities provided at other Internet connected sites will also be dealt with under these same rules and if necessary state and commonwealth laws; See information about the Spam Act 2003 legislation on the The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts and Australian Communications and Media Authority websites.
The misuse of email to mass mail is outside guidelines spelled out in Acceptable Uses of the AARNet Network and Computer Usage Guidelines. Please read the Guidelines for Communicating to the University community which cover acceptable use. We reserve the right to impose penalties for incidents initiated internally as detailed in the Usage Guidelines and Penalties. We will report incidents initiated externally to the relevant authority at the originating site of the unsolicited or Spam email and as a member of the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team will report such incidents for action.
The University requires that members of the University Community and the wider Internet community respect this policy position and requests that they follow such netiquette.
If you believe you have received spam email as a result of an inappropriate use of JCU email servers or aliases, forward the complete message (including all mail headers) to infohelp.