UCF'S POLICY FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL
The electronic mail systems on campus provide administrators,
faculty, staff, and students with a method of communication for
the exchange of non-commercial information in the support of administrative,
educational, and research interests.
Electronic communication facilities are for university-related
activities only. Commercial, fraudulent, harassing, or obscene
messages and/or materials are not to be sent or stored. If you
are having problems with harassing or forged mail, please send
e-mail to the Help account (helpdesk@mail.ucf.edu). While
the e-mail system has proven to be extremely useful for scholarly
research and communication, it is not and should not be considered
a secure system, and should not be relied on for the transmission
of confidential or sensitive data.
For more information, refer to the handout "University
of Central Florida Data and Computer Security" which is available
from the Help Desk (823-5117).
The Pegasus system is supported by Computer Services
to provide electronic mail and Internet access to the UCF user
community. Use of your University computer account indicates your
agreement to abide by University rule 6C7-4.037 entitled "Use
of Information Technology and Resources". Content of the
rule can be found on the UCF homepage
(http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/rule.html).
Reminder: All student accounts will be removed from the Pegasus system after the student has been inactive for two major semesters (two major semesters of unenrollment). Also, all UCF computer account usage will be held to the rules described in the UCF Golden Rule Handbook (available in Student Affairs).
In general, the following offenses may lead to the suspension of your account:
This list is not inclusive. The final authority for
determining computer offenses shall rest with the University rule
stated above.
When you log off from your account, please do not
leave any processes running; any processes found running after
a user has logged off will be terminated. Additionally, any account
logged on but left idle for more than two hours will be logged
off.
All UCF faculty, staff, and students have an entry
in the online phone book (see the section "Using the UCF
E-Mail and Telephone Directory" for more information). If
you want to make a change in this data or if you do not want to
be listed, send a note from your Pegasus account to helpdesk@mail.ucf.edu.
The UCF E-Mail and Telephone Directory is not to
be used for the generation of mailing lists, nor is it to be used
in any way that invades the privacy of UCF students, faculty,
or staff. Attempts to use the directory for such purposes will
result in the possible suspension of your Pegasus account as well
as other action deemed appropriate by the university.
The directory is also not the appropriate means for
notifying the university of a change of address. Changes made
in your directory entry are not sent to the Registrar's Office,
the Office of Admissions and Records, Payroll, or any other department.
To notify the university of such changes, go to the Registrar's
Office (Administration Building, 1st floor) and fill out a change
of address form.
To restrict the information that UCF makes public
about you, including the information in the directory, go to the
Office of Student Affairs (Administration Building, room 282)
and fill out a 'Request to Prevent Disclosures or Release Directory
Information' form. They will forward the request to the appropriate
departments, including the E-Mail and Internet Help Desk. Please
note that it may take 3-5 business days to receive the form and
change your entry.
If you need to create a commercial-looking web page as part of a class project, please observe the following guidelines:
An excessive number of accesses to your web pages,
while not a violation of policy, can cause performance degredation
of the Pegasus web server. If this occurs, we may contact you
and work with you to find ways for you to present your pages without
creating a heavy load on the server.