A Very Open Discussion Board

The University of Tennessee has told about 1,900 students and employees that their names and security numbers were posted online in an archive of an e-mail discussion group for campus employees. Members of the university’s bursar’s office and its computing office used the discussion group to exchange information about students who had paid too much or too little in tuition fees. But they apparently made the back-and-forth public instead of protecting it behind a firewall. (The Tennessean)