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From: hes@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Henry E. Schaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Georgia Tech's Restriction on Internet Access
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Date: 7 Mar 91 23:34:54 GMT
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In article <23808@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt6004a@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Goldsman) writes:
| ...  Any member of the faculty or staff, with authority to 
|access remote resources across the Internet, would be granted an account 
|on the Trusted Host.  Postdocs, Graduate Research Assistants, and 
|Undergraduate students with a valid requirement to access remote 
|resources would receive sponsorship from the appropriate faculty/staff 
|member and be granted an account on the trusted host.  Additional 
|automated request services would be available to support Anonymous FTP 
|with locally cached directories from a trusted FTP server.   ...
|
|Please commment on this evil memo from hell...

  Exactly what is evil about this?  I can see several aspects which
various people might not like - but what specifically are the
problems (both real and potential) with this policy?

--henry schaffer  n c state univ