Xref: utzoo comp.admin.policy:334 alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk:88 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk Subject: publicly-readable "adult" gifs (was Re: Ohio State University CIS Policies) Summary: actually relevant to OSU-CIS this time... Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 22:23:41 GMT References: <1991Jun3.165946.12637@eff.org> <1991Jun3.173550.13928@eff.org> <1991Jun3.232500.24850@ms.uky.edu> <1991Jun4.004016.20415@eff.org> Followup-To: comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 31 In-reply-to: kadie@eff.org's message of 7 Jun 91 18:02:27 GMT In article <1991Jun7.180227.4515@eff.org> kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) writes: >In jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes: >>A combination of university rules and state law. >Can you be more specific? What rules? What law? The university's sexual harrassment rules, and the state law on making "pornography" available to minors (we *do* get some). After one incident, the chairman (in response to a threatened lawsuit) was quite prepared to order all questionable images deleted, and future offenders treated harshly. Fortunately, that didn't happen, but it could. >It sounds like you selectively enforce your disk quotas based on >how much the content might embarrass the department chairman. It sounds like you don't read too well. If you're within your quota, we don't care what you have in there, but in the specific case of R- or X-rated graphic images, we care about the file permissions. The only "selective enforcement" of disk quotas is based on the relevance of the files to the funded purpose of the system (computer science instruction). If you're over quota because of course work, we'll work with you to solve the problem (possibly increasing your quota). If it's because of saved news or GIF files, we'll tell you to get rid of them. How much it "embarrasses the chairman" has *nothing* to do with it. "Sexual harassment at work -- is it a problem for the self-employed?" -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)