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From: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Policies regarding news access
Message-ID: <649@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 89 22:23:52 GMT
References: <648@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce)
Organization: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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In article <648@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> I wrote:
>
>Now that we have ANU News for VMS up and running, we have the capability
>to allow ALL of the users here (approx. 15,000) access to news.  Before we
>do that, however, I was wondering what policies (if any) regarding access to
>news are in place at other universites (or any other sites, for that matter).
>

Perhaps a little elaboration might be appropriate......

While we do indeed have approx 15,000 users here, I doubt very much that
all of them will be running news, so it sounds a bit more imposing than
it really is.  The actual number of news users will much, much lower.

I'll do my best to educate our users BEFORE they are even allowed to post
anything.  I have to, I can restrict access on a user-by-user basis.  Our
site has our share of childish users and I have no intention of letting
them use up net bandwidth indiscriminately.

Rest assured that I don't plan on letting our users abuse their news
privileges.  My apologies if I caused a panic by letting everyone think that
we were going to turn thousands of uneducated, unmonitored users loose on
the net.  
-- 
Leonard J. Peirce               Internet:  peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Western Michigan University                peirce@gw.wmich.edu
Academic Computer Center        Voice:     (616) 387-5430
Kalamazoo, MI  49008