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From: mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Should access be restricted
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Date: 21 Feb 90 05:35:35 GMT
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Organization: Promark Data Concepts, Garden City, NY
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I want to qualify my previous posting in re: Adelphi University policy
on allowing undergraduates to post to the net.  I want to make the
following points.

1. I make the policy in regards to USENET access.
2. There are too many students and we don't have time to police postings
   or have a desire to do so.
3. There is the cost factor.  If this university generates 50 postings
   a day from undergrads at about 100K, it's passed on others dime.
   I guess Penn States neighbors don't mind footing the bill.
4. When we do get rec, and talk, etc, they will be able to post to them.
4. If the person is knowledgable he can always reply via e-mail
   if the situation is that someone has requested help, which is the
   case often in several of the groups.
6. If he needs help with a Unix related problem or theory problem there
   are computer center people to answer his questions as well as masters
   and Phd level Mathematics/Computer Science people here to answer it.
7. I don't want anyone to interpret my statements as being anti-undergrad.
   They are merely statements of the facts here.  I pose: Is a first, second,
   year undergrad student who has taken some required liberal arts classes
   with a few math and intro computer science classes able to make a
   positive contribution to a discussion in many of the comp groups?
   I am aware the exceptions exist, but I am not speaking of the exceptions.


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