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From: rja@edison.GE.COM (rja)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: posting privileges
Message-ID: <1856@edison.GE.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 89 13:37:11 GMT
References: <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU>
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Organization: GE-Fanuc North America
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In article <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU>, gus@pyr.gatech.EDU (gus Baird) writes:
> 
> Undergraduates should not be allowed to post articles.
> 
> Georgia Tech will soon give UNIX accounts to all undergraduates.
> We haven't yet got postnews onto their machine.
> I say they should be allowed, even encouraged, to read news, but
> they should not be given posting privileges.

[ other words along the same vein deleted ]

I think that the default situation for _all_ new users is to have only
local posting privileges initially.  If they know enough to ask for 
wider distributions then the sysadmin can decide on a case-by-case
basis.  The University of Virginia publishes the standard postings
and articles on USENET in hardcopy form and tries to get their users
to read the hardcopy before granting net-wide posting privileges.
I believe that they have a reasonable policy on news.

I think that blanket restrictions "no undergrads" or whatever are
excessive and not very helpful.  Most of the noise these days comes
not from undergrad students but from porrly educated users on small
sites or on public-access systems.

  rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM