waters@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Jim Waters) (05/06/88)
I am looking for information on the general purpose computing
facilities available to the students at as many different universities
as possible. I have a few specific questions I'd like to ask:
1. Are there computer facilities available to the entire student body?
(I'm not asking about departmental or research systems, just general
use systems.) If so, what kind? (CPU? Operating system?) Do they
cost you money to use? What kind of printing facilities are there?
(lineprinter? laser?) Is there net access? Netnews access?
2. What kind of limitations are placed on your account? (i.e. Disk quotas,
console allocation, CPU time limits, etc) What happens when you
exceed these limits? (if applicable)
3. (This is the most important question.)
Are there policies regarding privacy of data, administrative examination
of private files (including mail files), freezing of accounts, etc?
Are the rules written or just understood?
4. What are the policies regarding other people using your account? How
strictly are they enforced?
I would appreciate any information any of you can give me. Please
send responses via e-mail. If there are written or online policy
statements, I would really appreciate a copy (either vial e-mail
or...gasp...paper mail). If anyone else cares, I will be glad to
summarize my findings.
The reason I ask is that Stanford is considering what policies to adopt
right now, and knows little about what is going on elsewhere. I was hoping
to get some idea what the rest of the world is like....
P.S. This is entirely an unofficial survey; I am not part of the Stanford
computer bureaucracy. Or any other bureaucracy, for that matter.
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What's that? Don't I have anything really profound to say here . . . Nope.SweetSurrender@cup.portal.com (05/08/88)
Hi there! If you will send me personal e-mail, I will be able to respond to your "plea"... SweetSurrender@cup.portal.com KMY7190@TAMVENUS.bitnet