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- From: kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: [comp.org.eff.talk] Re: Query: Can Universities limit network access &/or 'spy` on u
- Message-ID: <BxxMIC.J7J@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:01:24 GMT
- Followup-To: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk,comp.org.eff.talk
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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- [A repost - Carl]
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- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
- Subject: Re: Query: Can Universities limit network access &/or 'spy` on u
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.073637.22768@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 07:36:37 GMT
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- On a similar topic, I think that my university is the most anal-
- retentive regarding its computers of any university on the planet.
-
- I go to Southwest Missouri State University, in Springfield, and I
- have heard rumors that students will no longer be able to get Inter-
- net access next semester. Others have said that Internet is just being
- removed from another machine, and I'm not sure what to believe.
-
- One of my friends was recently ordered by the head of some computer
- department to unsubscribe to a list server he was using, because "stu-
- dents never sign off of the list servers at the end of the semester."
- And he was actually using it for ACADEMIC purposes (and I subscribe
- to two servers, I could be next!).
-
- Our school DOES have a few problems with Internet, the main one being
- people who ftp 5 or 6 megabyte files at peak hours. They seem to
- think that the simplest way to solve all this would be to cut stu-
- dents off from Internet entirely. Seems like amputating your arm
- to be rid of a gangrenous finger to me.
-
- They also don't like MUCKing--they don't consider it a "serious use
- of computer resources." But MUCKing is not putting an appreciable
- strain on SMSU resources; I think they're just coming down on it
- because they don't understand it.
-
- I had thought that when an educational organization such as SMSU
- signed onto Internet, one of the basic tenets was that they had to
- give any student instant access. But as it stands now, we have to
- get a sponsor's signature before we can get onto the mainframe with
- Internet access. And it's a very lousy mainframe, too.
-
- Is there anything I can do about this?
-
- --
- Chris Meadows // CHM173S@SMSVMA // CMEADOWS@NYX.CS.DU.EDU
- "If blood be the price of admiralty, then I've just bought me
- a naval commission." -- Corwin, SIGN OF THE UNICORN, Roger Zelazny
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
-