Web_Pict's Thread reminded me of this one from my second ship.
Every so often one of the newbies on the ship (often called booters) would get the notion to send out an email to ALL HANDS. Sometimes it was a question about lost & found items, sometimes it was someone else hopping onto an unsecure terminal, and sometimes (especially with the very new sailors) it was a religious message.
Regardless of the reason behind the spam-messages, the response was the same - they lost access to the computer system (for a week I believe) and someone in ADP (aka I.T.) explained to them why the email was inappropriate. I can't remember if they had to sign counseling chits but it's possible.
Then a new habit started spreading like wild-fire.... Yelling at the spammers to stop.
In all caps.
With disrespectful terminology.
In a reply-to-all email.
Yes. The people yelling back at the spammers were now the ones spamming. And people yelled at them too, while using reply-to-all.
Finally it was nipped in the bud. And the people yelling back at the spammers found out that it didn't matter why they were yelling or whom they were yelling at. Since they too were spamming the entire ship, they too got punished and had their computer access taken away for a while. I seem to recall a bit of arrogance on their part but... that never stopped ADP from pulling someone's account. Especially since the entire ship (including our Division officer and the Commanding officer) had seen those spam-mails.
in the meantime the rest of us just sat and watched, shaking our heads
Every so often one of the newbies on the ship (often called booters) would get the notion to send out an email to ALL HANDS. Sometimes it was a question about lost & found items, sometimes it was someone else hopping onto an unsecure terminal, and sometimes (especially with the very new sailors) it was a religious message.
Regardless of the reason behind the spam-messages, the response was the same - they lost access to the computer system (for a week I believe) and someone in ADP (aka I.T.) explained to them why the email was inappropriate. I can't remember if they had to sign counseling chits but it's possible.
Then a new habit started spreading like wild-fire.... Yelling at the spammers to stop.
In all caps.
With disrespectful terminology.
In a reply-to-all email.
Yes. The people yelling back at the spammers were now the ones spamming. And people yelled at them too, while using reply-to-all.
Finally it was nipped in the bud. And the people yelling back at the spammers found out that it didn't matter why they were yelling or whom they were yelling at. Since they too were spamming the entire ship, they too got punished and had their computer access taken away for a while. I seem to recall a bit of arrogance on their part but... that never stopped ADP from pulling someone's account. Especially since the entire ship (including our Division officer and the Commanding officer) had seen those spam-mails.
in the meantime the rest of us just sat and watched, shaking our heads
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