Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!munnari.oz.au!cluster!metro!natmlab.dap.csiro.au!ditsyda!macuni!mqccsunc!bcurtis From: bcurtis@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Brent Curtis) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users? Message-ID: <218@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> Date: 16 Feb 90 04:15:53 GMT References: <90042.134648LRL@PSUVM.BITNET> <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz Reply-To: bcurtis@mqccsunc.mq.oz (Brent Curtis) Organization: Macquarie University, Sydney, AUSTRALIA Lines: 17 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. I disagree. Undergrads are merely as bad as everyone else. I wouldn't over-generalize if I were you. Regarding the restriction of ugrad news, Macquarie only lets final year ugrads on to the net. I have no comment on this, I am merely reporting the state of student news at this university. Brent Curtis, who is _not_ an undergraduate. ACSNET : bcurtis@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au D