[SGVLUG] good free speech "spam" case

[Matt Campbell]

Hey Matti,

I'm a big proponent for free speech, but it sounds like she was using campus
facilities and was not abiding by their rules.  If she had used an outside
email and had spammed onto campus that might be different....

Matt

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> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:32 PM
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> Subject: [SGVLUG] good free speech "spam" case
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> this is a good example of free speech being
> stifled by the university administration
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> Michigan State to student: Political e-mail is spam
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10114646-38.html
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> "Kara Spencer's encounter with MSU's disciplinary apparatus started in
> September, when the student government member began discussing the
> shortened fall 2009 schedule with a small group of faculty members and
> administrators. She followed up by contacting 391 faculty members by e-
> mail, saying that professors should be aware of the "burden for class
> schedules and syllabi" the change would involve. "
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> "MSU's bulk e-mail rules say that e-mailing more than a "small set of
> recipients"--with the maximum number set at 30 people--is verboten."
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> "The question is: does bulk unsolicited e-mail count as inherently
> disruptive to the campus?" he said. "I would say no, it doesn't,
> especially when the message is something that's directly relevant to
> everything on campus."
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