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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Seeking arcade games for my Mac
Message-ID: <572@aucs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 07:34:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 07:34:17 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 01:25:42 EST
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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in article <6771@apple.UUCP>, dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) says:
> 
> In article <19070@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> robertj@yale.UUCP writes:
>>In article <546@aucs.UUCP> peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) writes:
>>>Here at Acadia, games on public computers, micro and mainframe, are
>>>strictly prohibited. We don't even allow students to access network news
>>>groups concerning games.
>>
>>Why does Acadia have such a hard-line policy?
> 	When I was at OU (Oklahoma) they had a similar hard-line
> and unforceable policy.

I memory serves me correctly, the original reason for the taboo at Acadia
was simply because of lack of computer resources. At that time, however,
there wasn't really much effort at enforcing it. Then along came some
games (of a sort) that were abused tremendously. Specifially, poster
makers. Students were running off posters of all sorts on the central
line printer, pages and pages of posters. Then students started using
this poster program to put up not so nice posters, and that ended all
the fun. Ever since, games of any sort on our machines here are prohibited
(to students that is :-) ).


Peter Steele Acadia Univ. Wolfville NS Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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