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Subject: Re: 804 dialout
Keywords: DIALOUT
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.143647.4165@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 14:36:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.181529.1755@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991Jun2.211543.15194@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991Jun3.134026.11020@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Jun3.134026.11020@athena.mit.edu> purdon@athena.mit.edu (James R. Purdon III) writes:
>> --I write:
>>  The fact still remains that your dialout is extremely accesible to 
>>  anyone in the internet community.  
>>
>>  When you login to this dialout do you have a statement warning
>>  users that it is only for UofV people?  If not, how is a person to 
>>  know that they may taking "advatage of it"??  (btw- I've never
>>  used this dialout so don't flame me if there IS such a note :-)
>
>I take it you have such a statement on your car, house, and all your personal
>belongings, right?  If not, I guess you won't mind me using them, right?

    I find your logic here a bit wobbled.  My car is locked, and you need
    a key to start it, a key that only I have.  The same goes for my house,
    it is locked and you need a key to gain entry.   These dialouts do not
    require any sort of 'key' (read: password) to enter.>

>For the most part, machines are placed on the internet to enhance
>communications, not to make a private resource publicly available.

    I would consider a dialout a means to 'enhance communications' :-)
    My point still remains intact.  How is a person to know that the
    dialout he or she is using is a 'private resource' and not to be
    used outside that specific university or company?  There are many, many
    computers, information services, etc that allow internet users free
    access to anyone who calls.

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