Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: Re^2: harassing mail Message-ID: <2843AA23.5CDE@tct.com> Date: 29 May 91 13:18:27 GMT References: <1991May22.042638.18885@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> <2475@novavax.UUCP> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 19 According to grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol): >Without students and without professors, university is nothing more than >another research center funded by the government. To imply otherwise shows >a basic lack of understanding of why universities exist. Perhaps I went a bit far in my original statement. Let me try again: The student body is key to the nature of a university. Any given individual student, however, is not. A university's computer administration should be geared to the good of the greater number of users, including the student body. Such greater good will, of necessity, deny privileges and services to individual students, so that their abuse (the potential for which is always present) cannot adversely impact the use of the computing resources by the other users. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , perl -e 'sub do { print "extinct!\n"; } do do()'