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Hate mail sent through the Internet was printed out on UW-Madison printers last week, part of a cyber assault on campuses and businesses across the country, university officials said on Tuesday.

The flyers, sent from an off-campus site, were racist, anti-Semitic and anti-gay, and started appearing on campus on Thursday.

Other campuses receiving the hate mail included UW-Milwaukee, Princeton, Brown and USC, and others.

"We value our diversity, in all of its forms, and are trying to create a safe and inclusive community for everyone," said UW-Madison Dean of Students Lori Berquam.

"Although these flyers are apparently from outside our community, we are very glad they were reported."

The flyers were sent to printers that were open to receive print jobs from the Internet.

The fliers were addressed to "white men" and disparage Jewish people. They included links to a neo-Nazi website.

On campus printers were being reconfigured so the the problem doesn't happen again, and the IP address used to send the flyers has been blocked by UW-Madison cybersecurity staff.

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