Comment Let the sysadmin be angry, then. (Score 1) 516
The compliant makes it sound like she was in a pissing contest with the network administrator. Not a good person to piss off if you want to send email.
How pissed off the sysadmin should be completely irrelevant to the situation. Yes, he can and should exercise some discretion in execution of policy, but it's either reasonable application of real policy or it's personal retaliation.
And If personal retaliation is the rule for disputes, then I'm sure some enterprising recipient is more than capable of thinking up some effective and fun ways of their own to play that game. Maybe this student is one of them.