What is Northwestern doing to protect my e-mail address so e-mail solicitors can get it?
Northwestern is continually reviewing options to both decrease junk e-mail and to secure the network, such as: • Educating the Northwestern community on how to utilize the junk e-mail filters that are built in to various e-mail clients including Outlook, Outlook Express, Entourage, Apple Mail, and Eudora. • To reduce contact information exposure, the University does not make the Northwestern (printed) directory publicly available. • Users can set their online directory information to only display for users connected to the Northwestern network. This limits individual exposure to possible solicitors. Caution: this is not recommended for individuals whose job requires them to be available to the outside world. • Northwestern limits the amount of replies that are returned on the online directory search. For example, if someone types the letter ‘h’, the directory will not return all entries that begin with ‘h’.
