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- From: kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie)
- Subject: Re: The Schedule of Classes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.211427.26667@eff.org>
- Originator: kadie@eff.org
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- Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- References: <1993Jan25.194346.3935@eff.org> <C1GtzJ.23I@ms.uky.edu> <1993Jan26.173707.21844@eff.org> <C1H9DE.Kvr@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:14:27 GMT
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- morgan@engr.uky.edu (Wes Morgan) writes:
-
- [...]
- >OK, then let's hear your opinion. Of what benefit is an online copy
- >of a class schedule that will be obsolete within a day? You can't
- >plan your schedule with it, right? If you do, you may very well get
- >burned and have to jump through even more hoops to register....yeah,
- >that obsolete online schedule was *really* handy......
- [...]
-
- I haven't formed an opinion on the usefulness of nonupdated on-line
- class schedules. But suppose I thought they were harmful; would I then
- support attempts to keep the information out of Eric's hands? No. The
- most I would do would be to try to persuade Eric of the error of his
- ways. If that didn't work, I'd post my own warnings and perhaps
- criticize Eric for publishing irresponsibility. In other words, I'd
- fight Eric's speech with more speech, not with suppression.
-
- [...]
- >According to his own online statement, he was told that:
-
- > a) The Registrar's Office would not give him an online copy
- > AND
- > b) The Registrar's Office did not want online copies which
- > could not <or would not> be kept accurate.
-
- >Eric then goes out, snarfs a copy, puts it up for anonymous ftp and
- >advertises it. Doesn't it seem as though the spirit of the Registrar's
- >wishes were violated, if not their explicit words?
- [...]
-
- Suppose, the Registrar's office calls Eric and says "Eric, we wish you
- would stop criticizing us on the Net". If Eric ignores their wishes
- and continues to post, would you have him up on charges for violating
- "the spirit of the Registrar's wishes ... if not their explicit
- words"?
-
- Suppose, the Registrar's office calls Eric and says "Eric, we order
- you would stop criticizing us on the Net". If Eric ignores their
- wishes and continues to post, would you have him up on charges for
- violating an order from the University?
-
- - Carl
-
-
-
- --
- Carl Kadie -- I do not represent EFF; this is just me.
- =kadie@eff.org, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu =
-