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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:09:06 CDT
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- From: BILL DREW <DREWWE@snymorva.bitnet>
- Subject: Re: AUTHORIZATION OF USERS RE: CD-ROM and NETWORKED RESOURCES
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- >At San Francisco State we are about to try a new system for screening
- >users of our electronic services
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- The above excerpt from an announcement here deeply disturbs me. I thought San
- Francisco State was a publicly funded institution paid for by the taxpayers of
- California. Some background information might be helpful as to why you see a
- need to restrict services.
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- {FLAME ON} What gives a public institution the right to restrict the use of
- its services? Do you prevent "outsiders" from using your reference sections?
- You are only adding to the problem of the information havenots in this world.
- {FLAME OFF}
-
- If anyone out there is in the neighborhood of Morrisville College please feel
- free to come in and use ANY of our resources be it electronic or paper.
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-
- Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill") Serials/Reference/Systems Librarian
- State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology
- P.O. Box 902; Morrisville, NY 13408-0902
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- Internet: DREWWE@SNYMORVA.CS.SNYMOR.EDU or DREWWE@SNYMORVB.CS.SNYMOR.EDU
- Phone: (315)684-6055 or 684-6060 Fax: (315)684-6115
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