Or you get keyboard lockdown without DL lockdown and the DL abuse continues unchanged. That's not a win for the OP's problem.
Carl -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 12:33 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Distribution lists And that's a bad thing? If you do it from an executive's PC, you get either or both of a lockdown of the DL and locking screensavers. If you do it from your least favorite non-executive's machine you get the same. Seems like a win for you no matter what. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:30, Carl Houseman<[email protected]> wrote: > Think it through. If you do it from somebody's machine who would have been > allowed to use the DL, such as an executive, it doesn't help at all. Not > to mention, it will probably be found out that it was keyboard-jacking, and > not employee abuse of the DL, and the result will be mandated > password-protected screen savers throughout. > > > > Carl > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:47 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Distribution lists > > > > That is actually a fine idea > > 2009/7/13 Kurt Buff <[email protected]> > > This is an easy fix. > > Find (or compose) a silly email on someone else's non-attended, > non-screensavered machine, and send it to the all users list. > > One of my favorites is to announce candy or cookies at the victim's desk. > > Be sure to wipe up for fingerprints afterward, if you happen to do it > to an executive, though. > > Heh. > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:43, Kennedy, Jim<[email protected]> > wrote: >> +1 >> >> >> >> You have given them the recommendation and they have decided. Let it go, >> move on and ignore the emails in the future. You may be sick of them but >> management is not. Yet. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Matt Moore [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 11:22 AM >> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues >> Subject: RE: Distribution lists >> >> >> >> In that case my advice is to turn a blind eye and let those execs worry >> about it. If it’s un-monitored, it’s just that. No worries. >> >> M >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:20 AM >> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: Distribution lists >> >> >> >> I would if I could, but I can't. Not until some idiot sends something that >> gets on one of the exec team's nerves. Just wondering if there was any >> other >> way I could spare myself some pain. >> >> I know the old adage about technological solutions to behavioural >> problems, >> though, it has never rung truer >> >> 2009/7/13 Matt Moore <[email protected]> >> >> Limit access to a chosen few and all the spam goes away. >> >> M >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:07 AM >> >> To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues >> Subject: Distribution lists >> >> >> >> Afternoon Exchange gurus >> >> Is it possible to have the "All Staff" distribution list (or any other, >> really) set up so that when an email is sent to it, it goes to an >> administrator for approval first? I am sick of getting emails that say >> "there is a salesman selling cards in reception" and when someone spammed >> the DL with a hoax that was well-documented on snopes.com, I ended up >> getting a reprimand from my boss about being harsh to users. I only >> threatened to remove her ability to send to the DL. Sheesh. I know that we >> shouldn't give all users the ability to send to it, but I doubt I am going >> to shift my boss's boss's stance on this one. >> >> Any other pointers would be also gratefully received, I am not much of an >> Exchange bod. >> >> TIA, >> >> >> JRR >> >> -- >> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into >> the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able >> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke >> such >> a question." >> >> http://raythestray.blogspot.com >> >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.387 / Virus Database: 270.13.7/2222 - Release Date: 07/12/09 >> 17:56:00 >> >> >> -- >> "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into >> the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able >> rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke >> such >> a question." >> >> http://raythestray.blogspot.com >> >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.387 / Virus Database: 270.13.7/2222 - Release Date: 07/12/09 >> 17:56:00 > > > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com
