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From: gwollman@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Garrett A Wollman)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Do you restrict your users?
Summary: Undergrads have to be smart to figure out news
Message-ID: <4324@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 23 Feb 90 23:22:20 GMT
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Reply-To: gwollman@jhunix.UUCP (Garrett A Wollman)
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Speaking as an undergrad at Hopkins, I must say that (at least around
here) anyone who isn't smart enough to make a worthwhile contribution
to some newsgroup isn't smart enough to use a large SysV Unix system
with lots of [sometimes] buggy software.

With the large international student population here, many people read
their appropriate soc.culture groups.  Other people read rec.whatever.
Almost everyone reads rec.humor.funny.  <Hi Brad!>

Even though all Hopkins students are entitled to a Unix account, a very
small percentage actually take up the opportunity and *use* it.  I imagine
the same is true at other schools with a choice of mainframes.

[If you forgot about all the class accounts, there would be more people
using the VAX 6410 than this 3B4000.]

-GAWollman

-- 
"All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and children.
 . . . As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other bases
 is possible."           - Lazarus Long [RAH, _TEFL_]
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