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From: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
Message-ID: <45@dynasys.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 90 17:46:39 GMT
References: <90042.134648LRL@PSUVM.BITNET> <1990Feb12.052427.4143@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Feb13.032400.4120@eng.umd.edu> <1646@umigw.MIAMI
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In article <1646@umigw.MIAMI.EDU> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
>
>One idea is to restrict distribution of new users, (including
>undergrads) to local for n weeks. This spares the net from the
>thousands of "test"s in active groups, and the "please subscribe
>me to list" messages. The idea is that after such a time, they
>may have read enough to avoid the worst of the mistakes. A
>refinement might be that they had also spent x connect hours or 
>y cpu seconds in news. 


It is silly to suggest that undergrads be restricted because they
are undergrads - especially for the reason you state.  What about
grad students that have never been on the net?  What you should
say here is that those new to the net should be restricted for
a certain amount of time before they are allowed to post.


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