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From: mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
Summary: The reality is...
Message-ID: <2283@promark.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 90 04:45:57 GMT
References: <90042.134648LRL@PSUVM.BITNET> <1990Feb12.083329.18289@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
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Organization: Promark Data Concepts, Garden City, NY
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In article <1990Feb12.083329.18289@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
> In article <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>    gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> >  One possibility would be to restrict undergraduates to a
> >smaller distribution. Most of what undergraduates have to say is
> >of no interest to anyone anywhere anyway. The fact that so many
> >of them post from Penn State is making the site notorious.
> 
> Speak for yourself.  I have as much interest in hearing what an undergrad
> has to say as I do a high school dropout or anyone else.
> 
> --
> Yup, I'm an undergrad.

At Adelphi University we do not allow undergraduates to post as we feel their
knowledge-base limits the positive contribution they can make to the computer
hierarchies.  Considering the limited number of undergraduate postings I
think there are many universities that maintain this policy. Either this
or I am totally wrong, and many universities allow undergrads to post and
all these undergrads are well behaved and know when they cannot make a
positive contribution.

Much of the comp groups deal at an applied level that most experienced people
in industry are familiar with.  Other groups deal at the graduate level.
Prime examples are comp.arch, comp.theory, sci.math, etc.

Of course there are the talk and rec hierarchies, but we don't bother
getting those groups here since we get our news via UUCP.  We will be
on internet, and bitnet soon and when we are, things will change as we
get our news via internet. But for now, they cannot post, and I am sure
experienced industry people, and grad. students out there are happy with that.

One can look intelligent, assert intelligence, have a reputation for
intelligence, but we really find out when you speak.  Once you have
any reputation it sticks.

A local town here boasts that 83% of their high school grads are going to
college now!  This is up some 41% from 18 years ago.  With all the federal
talk about our poor public educational systems, you don't think 83%
of the high school grads are college material do you?

-- 
Mark J. DeFilippis
SA @ Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530                   (516) 663-1170
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