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- From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: User services was: Re: putting lyrics to "Cop Killer" in .plan file
- Message-ID: <BETSYS.92Jul29173318@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 00:33:18 GMT
- References: <BETSYS.92Jul21002239@ra.cs.umb.edu> <14i95lINNdmu@nigel.msen.com>
- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
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- In-reply-to: emv@msen.com's message of 21 Jul 1992 20:12:23 -0400
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- In article <14i95lINNdmu@nigel.msen.com> emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
- >The whole question of what services a user without any special priveleges
- >is allowed to provide to the rest of the internet is a tough one.
- >Consider that e.g. an unprivelged user can run a WAIS server, a gopher
- >server, and thus allow some amount of access to whatever files are on
- >the system (good, bad, useful or "obscene"). The finger .plan file
- >is a very small piece of what all else people might do if they were
- >sufficiently motivated and skillful.
-
- Funny you should mention that. We just drafted a rough policy file,
- adn one thing we put in is that providing public services is the
- responsibility of the administrators and must be approved by us.
- This is 95% for practical reasons; our particular site is very
- starved for resources, in particular network load. Making sure that
- resources are reserved for their intended purpose is part of our job.
- "General interesting exploration" is one intended purpose of the
- system, but coursework , faculty research, and systems work all
- outrank it.
-
- Besides, I may be showing my ignorance here, but I don't think an
- unprivileged user can offer wais or gopher access offsite....
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