JM9W@TE.CC.CMU.EDU.UUCP (01/27/87)
The non-Vax-using management at Carnegie Mellon University has decided to let the entire campus community (all students, faculty, and staff - anyone who uses computers here) have read access to the Info-Vax mailing list. Of course, this means that anyone who wishes to read it can do so, and while a lot of general interest discussions occur on this list, a fair amount of security issues are discussed. I know that in the past this issue has been discussed on this list, but I don't seem to recall any situation where an entire university was allowed to read Info-Vax. For those of you that have any comments on what Carnegie Mellon has decided to do, send me mail [JM9W@TE.CC.CMU.EDU - Internet, R021JM9W@CMCCVB - Bitnet], and I will summarize your replies to the non-Vax-using management who have made this decision. Thank you. -Jim Murawski -Computing Center Software -Carnegie Mellon University -Pittsburgh, PA -------
carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU.UUCP (01/30/87)
We've had essentially free access to INFOVAX at Caltech for quite some time now (The teleconference is available to all users of a number of computers, and the manager of the computer that handles redistribution to other systems generally asks only that the manager of any system for which a copy is requested agrees to handle any necessary redistribution to individuals of that computer). I know of no problems that have arisen from this practice.