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From: glgreely@athena.mit.edu (Greg Greeley)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Net Access Policies?
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Date: Mon, 19-Jan-87 20:19:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 19 20:19:58 1987
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In article <9994@gatech.EDU> spaf@gatech.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
...
>There are some concerns here about suddenly making Internet ftp and
>rlogin a reality for many hundreds of students.
>
>How do other campuses handle this issue?  Is it handled?  Has there
>been much incidence of problems?  We tend to have very aggressive and
>adept students here, so our concern is more than just the usual
>paranoia :-)

I've worked as a Student Consultant for MIT's Project Athena for
several years now.  We have several thousand students (most of them
new to the timesharing world) on our system, and each of them has
access to the internet.

To the best of my knowledge,  we've had few, if any, problems with
this situation.  I think there are two reasons for this: 1) we don't
announce the fact that ftp, telnet, etc. connect to the rest of the
world (i.e. off campus), and 2) those people who can figure out that
we connect to the rest of the world are usually hired to help run or
develop software for some system.

--
Greg Greeley
glgreely@athena.mit.edu