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Subject: Security and Info-Vax
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Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 18:08:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  3 18:08:09 1987
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What exactly is the harm in releasing this material to students ?

-  As far as I can surmise, there hasn't been any discussions of a 'sensitive'  
nature on this mailing list (I am a new user to this list, so please correct me
if nessesary).  

-  Although the students have access, how many will do anything with (or even 
read) it ?  Most of the discusions here are about esoteric software bugs and
purchases of equipment that a student could never afford.  There is very little
here for a student to be interested in, so I suspect very few will continue
reading for very long.

-  Very few students leave college with any idea of what managing a large
computer system is like, be it Vax, Ibm, Gould, etc.  If access to this list
will help out anyone of any discipline understand what managing a system is
like then access is a good idea.

Since this is a public list, let the information remain public, maybe the
students will learn something...
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John J. McMahon (Fast-Eddie)                     
                                     Internet:  XRJJM%6173.SPAN@JPL-VLSI.ARPA
Technical Systems Programmer         Bitnet:    ZMJJM@SCFVM
STX - ST Systems Corporation         SPAN:      6173::XRJJM
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland 20771            Views expressed in this letter are my own, 
                                     and are not meant to represent the views of
                                     my employers.