Kid gets suspended for using netsend

[Jeff]

Have you seen this story?

http://www.bigblueball.com/news2/article.asp?id=483

It's about a 13 year old kid who got a 3 day suspension from school for accidently sending the message "Hey" to every computer on the school network using the netsend command. Is it just me, or did they over-react?

The kid's dad setup the following website with more details on the story:

http://www.nightmarecandles.com/Hey!.html

[magistyk]

How stupid, I'll tell you one thing. I am emailing their damn principal tomorrow.

[plastidcells]

ya i think they did over-react
it's not like he said anything more than "hey!" he didn't help anyone cheat on anything nor should they think that he did since he automatically confessed that he was the one who used netsend intead of trying to hide it
there was a point when everybody was using netsend at my school...
and we would've continued usuing it but this guy (lil' freshman) sent a message to everyone in the library...
and all they did was disable the netsend command
nobody got in trouble or anything...

[Faizan]

I read the story from Carl’s blog and it’s so sad.
This is pathetic! Schools are stupid when they come into a matter of internet or computer networks. I got expelled for a day for printing something from my forum, but printing was not the reason of getting expelled, the material printed was the reason. My mate and I wrote a gossip news article about this girl in our school, which had sex with 21 years guy, on her sister’s bathroom sink.

It was the stupidest thing my mates and I ever did, and it was more stupid that I decided to print it out from school, how retarded could I be?

They made a really big deal out of it and threatened me that they will call NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), and tell them to take me away from my parents because they cannot watch what I am doing on the computer. But they fortunately asked my parents if they can ban me from the computers and my parents agreed to it, and we went home.

My parents did not ban me from computers for even a minute because they knew that the news article was not as bad as my school thought. They told me that they’d ban me from the school network but they did not, and they could not either, because I do computer related courses which need school’s network 24/7.

Oh well, I deleted the new article from my forum straight after they snatched the print out from my hand. They even told me to close down the whole site or else I will be taken to the police. I did not do that, and oh well my site does not have any bad contents anyway. It was just that article which my mates and I decided to write!

I swear I would never print any irrelevant stuff from school again.

Thankfully, they read the timings in the print out so they believed that it was not written using the school network, or in the school time, and that saved a bit of the trouble.

If I could improve one thing in school, I would improve the ICT (Information Communication Technology) department.

[Red Devil]

Its pretty obvious that these teachers knew next to nothing about computers, otherwise they wouldnt have made a big deal out of netsend.

At my old high school, we were using winpopup all the time and even managed to get quake 2 onto the network, and we got away with it because the head of i.c.t. knew nothing. i mean, all he had to do was disable the program and not give us installation rights but he didnt. instead he just threatened us with detention.

Unfortunetly, the head of i.c.t. at my college does know something about computers. must find way to get quake 2 back on...

[detn8r]

Most school's have rules about sending Network Messages.

At my school, each student has their own log in. When they do log in, a window appears telling them what they can not do. Sending Network Messages is on there. So weather they type "hey" or like someone did last year "Sarah sucks major you know what" they get suspended.

So, with that said... anyone have a link to send them using Novell ?

[Fimus]

Wow... I just sent a net send message saying "hey" to * (everyone in our domain) before I saw this post.
I'm in a technical school, everyone is on a computer at most times...
hehehe.......

[coolguyj2]

hi... I use netsend command all the time in coll but only on NT systems... is there any command for the same on Win 98/ME???
coolguy

[Fimus]

Yes there is, but WinPopUp has to be running...
Start -> Run... type in winpopup
Correct me if I'm wrong, I forgot what to exactly type in the Run dialog.

[ShadowSlayer469]

Wow, thats really overeacting! I use net send at my school all the time, and my teachers are aware of it and dont care! They still dont care even though were not supposed to be able to access the command prompt but every one knows anyway. They ony time they got mad at me for doing anything in the command prompt was when when I found an unused IP adress in the range and used it to do whatever I wanted with it ^^ And I only got a detention for that! I dont see how something like this could earn you 3 days of suspention, but then again, it might just be my school.