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From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: RFC on my "abuse"
Message-ID: <1991Jul1.014426.5808@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 1 Jul 91 01:44:26 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

> There are a lot of rude and offensive things people can do which are not
>illegal.  And as far as I am concerned, they can do them as much as they like
>in their own house or on their own computer.  If they do them in someone
>elses house or on someone elses computer they should expect to be kicked out.

Now if your site was owned by YOU, I could get to that. 

If you are running a university installation, however, I'd say that even
though it's a service provided by you and your group...to the students
those are public computers. 

IS the notion of "public access" (even if the public space is small) dead?

-- 
Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov       dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov           ames!elroy!dxh

   "It is a dragon, destroyer of all," cried the ants. 
                                   Then a cat caught the lizard.