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From: szabo%sequent.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Nick Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Using news for internal communications
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Date: 2 Jan 91 06:12:11 GMT
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Carl M. Kadie writes:

> Security is provided by restricting networking to trusted machines and
> by having some groups accessable only by people who belong to proper
> Unix file-protection group. So, for example, only faculty can read the
> professor's notesfile.

What is the rationale for segregating readers into different groups?
Is there information students should not be privy to (such as grades
or exam questions) posted to the faculty group?  Conversely, does 
information that might be valuable for a student ever get posted to the
faculty group, where the student can't get at it?  

Nick Szabo