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From: bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil (Brett Kottmann)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: publicly-readable "adult" gifs (was Re: Ohio
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.103219.139@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil>
Date: 11 Jun 91 15:32:19 GMT
References: <JGREELY.91Jun7130139@mo <JGREELY.91Jun8143813@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu
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In article <1991Jun10.203000.22473@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jfraser@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jane Fraser) writes:
> In article <1991Jun8.200358.13482@eff.org> kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>>Refering to OSU's subscription to Playboy ...
>>
>>jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes:
>>[...]
>>
>>It's my impression that materials such as Playboy are kept in places
>>such as the Rare Book room to protect the magazine from the reader,
>>not the reader from the magazine. (Playboy is prone to be stolen; a
>>vulnerable not shared by GIF files).
>>
> 
> I happened to have lunch today with Bill Studer, Director of the
> Libraries here at Ohio State.  Playboy is available only by
> temporarily trading your student/faculty/staff ID for it, but anyone
> may read it.  The only age limit imposed would be that the person
> would have to be able to reach the counter to present his/her ID. :-)
> 
> The librarians assembled (most of the OSU Library administration) were
> strong in their remarks that librarians everywhere believe in
> unregulated access to library materials.
> 

	As a former student of OSU, I have to admire their stand on this issue
:).

	For system admins, the question is do you regard your site as
library-like or (adult) bookstore-like?
	Since I am not selling anything, I would go the library route.  Perhaps
we should all change the names of our machines to "electronic library site"
instead of "anonymous ftp site".

Brett
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