Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!mcdcup!mcdchg!ddsw1!zane From: zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Sameer Parekh) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Georgia Tech's Restriction on Internet Access Message-ID: <1991Mar16.043027.19683@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 16 Mar 91 04:30:27 GMT References: <52892@cornell.UUCP> <23887@hydra.gatech.EDU> Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Wheeling, IL Lines: 15 In article <23887@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox) writes: >We have a security guard in our library to glance at people's ids as they >come in. But we don't X-ray and strip-search them, or lock off reference books >for only "approved use". The kind of stringent security measures that >are such a terrific idea for IBM, etc. are nothing but a massive annoyance >in an academic environment. No. They are not an annoyance. They are a hindrance. There is a difference. (If there was a high-pitched soft squeal while I was trying to relax, that would be an annoyance. If I had to study for a final and the middle 400 pages of my book were missing, that would be a hindrance.) -- zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM