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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.adm,btl.workplace,att.workplace
Subject: Re: WARNING Re: UUCP Network Directory
Message-ID: <1178@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 10:34:58 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1178
Posted: Fri Jan 13 10:34:58 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Jan-84 03:45:37 EST
References: <467@akgua.UUCP> <429@bbncca.ARPA>
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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The ARPANET directory contains similar information to the proposed UUCP
network directory.  To be entered within it, I believe one must go
through one's ARPANET liason to register.  The liason sends the persons
name, organization, phone # and net address to the NIC (Network
Information Center).  When the ARPANET directory comes out, for each
person who was registered, their name, organization, net address, phone
# (correct me, sdyer@bbncca if i'm wrong) and a unique ARPA code
appears.  I favor such a list because it is useful to ARPANET users who
need to quickly get in touch with each other for business reasons.  The
key to the directory is that (1) only authorized ARPANET users are
allowed to get on it (ie. no turists) and (2) one must go through two
central authorities to be placed in the directory.

If the UUCP network could adopt such a scheme, for example designating
one person from each node (perhaps the site administrator) as the "UUCP
liason", then have one node designated as the UUCP Network Information
Center (suggestions anyone?), regular UUCP participants could be placed
on the directory at the discretion of the site administrators and the
UUCP NIC.  Of course, the site administrators should *NOT* place anyone
on the directory unknowingly or unwillingly.  I disagree as does most
anyone else with the proposal to volunteer names of other users of your
machine.  It is a definite invasion of privacy and the kind of thing
Orwell was warning us about in 1984.

Comments are welcome.
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--greg
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