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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: <BxxMIr.J8q@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:01:38 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: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: Query: Can Universities limit network access &/or 'spy` on u
- Message-ID: <BxxBJq.BpH@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:04:32 GMT
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- cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows) writes:
- }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 Internet access...
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- }Is there anything I can do about this?
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- transfer?
-
- (That's not as flip as it sounds) When students start asking the admissions
- office questions like:
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- Do you have `T1' or better access to Internet?
- Do all students get Internet access? Under what limits?
- Do all students get usernames? On what kind of systems? Limits?
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- then the university will start realizing the importance of such facilities
- -- hopefully the day will come when these questions stop getting asked, I
- mean nobody asks:
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- Do you have running water? Electricity? Indoor plumbing?
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- anymore (at least in up here in Iowa ;-)
-
- John
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- John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
- Systems Software Engineer
- Project Vincent
- Iowa State University Computation Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
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- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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