Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: posting privileges Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 89 16:14:51 GMT References: <7502@pyr.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: usa Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 33 In-reply-to: gus@pyr.gatech.EDU's message of 8 Mar 89 15:24:05 GMT Everyone associated with our department has access to the department's UNIX workstation facilities. This includes faculty, graduate students, undergrads (above the 100 level, where they use Macintoshes that don't yet do news and mail), and facilities and office staff. Everyone who has an account on the department's UNIX facilities has the ability to use the facilities however they like, and has for as long as we've been on the network. Undergraduate students joined the ranks when we got enough facilities to support them, about 1.5 years ago. "However they like" would include mail, news, FTP, telnet, finger - the whole gamut of internetwork user services - but would not include using state resources for commercial purposes or personal financial gain. Facilities available to users of different groups (grad, undergrad, etc.) differ only in disk storage quotas. Georgia Tech is, of course, obligated to employ whatever measures they find necessary to the operation of their site. So are we. We do not feel that general restrictions of posting privileges are necessary here, but rather prefer to deal with problems on a case-by-case basis as they arise. They don't arise much. We start with the basic assumption that individuals here are reasonable adults, and only treat them otherwise when they demonstrate otherwise. We provide users with access to information regarding policies and procedures and expected standards of behavior, and they are held individually responsible for upholding those standards. Of course, I can describe the feelings only of the systems staff of this department. Policies of other organizations on campus may differ. (BTW, the only local user against whom we were ever even tempted to invoke the FASCIST option was a faculty member. We didn't.)