Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!tytso From: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Tso) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: posting privileges Keywords: knowledge base, maturity, free speech, discrimination Message-ID: <9745@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 Mar 89 23:48:17 GMT References: <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU> <9689@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <9691@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <744@crlabs.CRLABS.COM> <331@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Tso) Distribution: usa Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 26 In article <331@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@capone.gatech.edu (Scott Holt) writes: > 2) Institutions such as ours have an obligation to assure that > standards of good taste are followed in all the articles > that get posted from this site. Gee, this sounds familar..... when our organization, the Student Information Processing Board, (yes, it's composed of mostly volunteer undergraduates) received permission to provide netnews service to all MIT undergraduates, one of the stipulations was that if as a result of providing this service MIT's name were to be besmirched, netnews would be summarily yanked. One of the ways which we sent up to avoid this was to set up an entry in our sys file so that all articles posted at our site would be received by a local "monitor", who could read articles, and, in extreme cases, send cancel messages out after articles which were clearly inappropriate. Dubious articles would result in a letter sent to the poster explaining how they had violated Netiquette and asking not to do it again. Postings from root or daemon are summarily canceled. The system has worked fairly well, for the most part. - Ted =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Theodore Ts'o bloom-beacon!mit-athena!tytso 3 Ames St., Cambridge, MA 02139 tytso@athena.mit.edu Everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same!