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Chris, I guess you're mostly asking what are the substantive changes, but it appears there are numerous changes in wording and style as well. As an exercise, I located a copy of the 2007 ruling from Google's Cache. I then loaded the 2007 rev into Word, and then the 2009 rev, and did a Compare between the two. Word found many changes -- too many for me to sort out style versus substance. (Suggestion: keep every version of something as important as an Administrative Ruling online forever. It's kind of like losing legislative history otherwise.) This appears to be a key substantive change: Old: “Bulk *e-mail*” in this context means the transmission of an *e-mail*message within a short time frame to more than a small set of recipients who may not have elected voluntarily to receive the *e-mail*. “Short time frame” means an interval spanning as long as 2 days. “Small set of recipients” means the size of individual-recipient address lists (To, CC, BCC fields) typical of most e-mails in common *use*, ranging from 1, to a few, to as many as may be involved in a large committee or work group (~20-30). *Use*of mailing lists and listservs to which recipients may voluntarily opt in and opt out is encouraged, and this type of *e-mail* distribution is not included in the meaning of “bulk *e-mail*” in this document. New: *III. Definitions* A. Bulk e-mail: The transmission of an identical or substantially identical e-mail message within a 48 hour period from an internal user to more than 10 other internal users who have not elected to receive such e-mail. /rich On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Chris Wolf <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > And no one could take a little time to summarize the changes for us? Not > even a clue? Shouldn't the very first FAQ be "What the heck changed in the > May 2009 update?" > > I absolutely hate this kind of correspondence when it comes from my bank or > my cable company. It's just as worthless when it comes from the University. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Gift, Vice Provost, Libraries, Computing and Technology > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:09 PM > To: MSU Community > Subject: Appropriate use of MSU e-mail services > > This message is sent to notify everyone with a MSU NetID of a revision of > the Administrative Ruling regarding appropriate use of MSU e-mail services. > This revision replaces and further clarifies an earlier Administrative > Ruling originally posted in November 2004 and updated in September 2007. > > The Administrative Ruling is posted at: > http://lct.msu.edu/guidelines-policies/appropriate-use-of-msu-email.html > It is accompanied there by a related FAQ. >