Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!aecom!naftoli From: naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert N. Berlinger) Newsgroups: net.news.adm Subject: Re: Should news/mail access be given to students? Message-ID: <866@aecom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 10:38:29 EDT Article-I.D.: aecom.866 Posted: Tue Oct 9 10:38:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 06:04:52 EDT References: <399@wucs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 33 > Those of you who administrate news and systems in universities-- > do you let the general student population read news? post news? > receive mail? send mail? Here at Albert Einstein College, we administrate the computing for all undegraduate divisions of Yeshiva University. Concerning news/mail, we have taken the position that a student is responsible for his/her actions, and therefore we do not limit the students' access to the net, save for not allowing them read access to net.bugs and net.sources (more about that later). We feel that if a student performs some undesireable action, it will be a reflection of their personal behavior and not of the college's. As for net.bugs, we feel that since security bugs are sometimes posted there, it is in our best interests to keep the bugs to ourselves. And we also turn off net.sources, simply because we don't want multiple copies of the same program floating. If a user sees that a particular piece of software was posted to net.sources by reading some other newsgroup, he/she can mail a request to one of the administrators and they will arrange for the program to be integrated into our local software collection. Also, security bug hacker programs are sometimes posted to net.sources. It is my opinion that most net users deal with other *users*. Not sites. Just because joeshmoe has a login on site xyz, doesn't mean that he reflects the attitude of the administration on that machine. -- Robert Berlinger ...{philabs,cucard,pegasus,ihnp4,rocky2}!aecom!naftoli "If you're not where you are, you're nowhere"