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From: brs@cci632.cci.com (Brian Scherer)
Subject: Re: 804 dialout
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.171607.12526@cci632.cci.com>
Keywords: DIALOUT
Reply-To: brs@op632.UUCP (Brian Scherer)
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
References: <1991May30.173436.19891@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991Jun1.181529.1755@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1991Jun2.211543.15194@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1991Jun3.134026.11020@athena.mit.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1991 17:16:07 GMT

In article <1991Jun3.134026.11020@athena.mit.edu> purdon@athena.mit.edu (James R. Purdon III) writes:
>In article <1991Jun2.211543.15194@rodan.acs.syr.edu> dbarberi@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Purple Polka Dotted Dragons Everywhere!!!) writes:
>>  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?
>
>For the most part, machines are placed on the internet to enhance
>communications, not to make a private resource publicly available.
>
>
>
>--
>
>Jim
>
>Once I was a fetus.  Now I am a person.  Soon I will be married.

The university is telling people that they can come in using internet
, in other words they are promoting it. People don't promote
the use of their cars or personal belongings. You are comparing
apples to oranges.


Brian