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From: sasaki@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU.UUCP
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Subject: Does this policy affect security?
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Date: Sun, 8-Feb-87 14:04:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  8 14:04:05 1987
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University students, as a whole, won't be interested in info-vax. They
will read it for a while, and then just quit. I used to read
info-unix, but when I stopped being responsible for a UNIX system, I
stopped reading it. While some stuff was interesting, there was no
reason, I got bored.

As I communicated privately, readonly access to this mailing list is
probably safe and useful to those students who are interested. The
only problem is that the powers that be in the university hierarchy
don't realize the amount of resources needed to support a large number
of users doing something like reading mail. Info-vax will probably
lead to mail, which will probably lead to word-processing, and then
who knows what else? ("...begins with P which rhymes with T, which
stands for Trouble.")

I've seen fist fights over terminal access (one kid had finished and
was reading news, the other needed access to finish his programming
project), emotions run high during periods of stress (finals,
midterms, etc.). 
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