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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Georgia Tech's Restriction on Internet Access
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.071645.1590@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 20 Mar 91 07:16:45 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.211732.14152@vpnet.chi.il.us> louisg@vpnet.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto) writes:

>>	Lesse - shared accts, limited # of mail messages, gee, doesn't that
>>sound familiar?  All we need is censored newsgroups, and we've got Prodigy!
>>Neat!  Prodigy finally comes to the Net!  :-/
[...]
>I don't see the parallel.  I was talking about a site, not the Net in general.
>Also, a limited acct. due to disk space restrictions and networking
>costs is not unreasonable especially since universities have budgets
>within which they must work.

Well, the limitations mentioned above are pretty trivial to work
around. And they probably won't address the things that cost money.
Most universities have plenty of bandwidth on their internet
connection; they may lack disk space or terminals, but a limit on the
# of mail messages won't address that problem.

Stupid solutions rarely work, but at least they inspire creative
work-arounds.