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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Why do they proscribe these groups?
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Date: Sat, 16-Nov-85 02:46:43 EST
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> Why do JH do this?  I'd be very interested to see a copy of the proscription
> list, with the reasons for the groups being proscribed, and which categories
> of users are prohibited from reading which groups.
> 
The Engineering Computing Facility has its head up its posterior and
its been that way since its inception.  An exemplary policy of theirs
was to shut the UNIX machine used by nearly everyone in the departments
for text processing during the last week of the semester and the finals
period (of course, this is when everyone is writing their papers) in order
to do site preparation on a yet to be delivered VMS machine.

I'm probably not going to offend anyone down there since they don't bother
to read net.news.group.