peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) (02/11/89)
Now that we have ANU News for VMS up and running, we have the capability to allow ALL of the users here (approx. 15,000) access to news. Before we do that, however, I was wondering what policies (if any) regarding access to news are in place at other universites (or any other sites, for that matter). Please e-mail responses to me. If there is enough interest, I'll summarize and post. -- Leonard J. Peirce Internet: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University peirce@gw.wmich.edu Academic Computer Center Voice: (616) 387-5430 Kalamazoo, MI 49008
peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) (02/11/89)
In article <648@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> I wrote: > >Now that we have ANU News for VMS up and running, we have the capability >to allow ALL of the users here (approx. 15,000) access to news. Before we >do that, however, I was wondering what policies (if any) regarding access to >news are in place at other universites (or any other sites, for that matter). > Perhaps a little elaboration might be appropriate...... While we do indeed have approx 15,000 users here, I doubt very much that all of them will be running news, so it sounds a bit more imposing than it really is. The actual number of news users will much, much lower. I'll do my best to educate our users BEFORE they are even allowed to post anything. I have to, I can restrict access on a user-by-user basis. Our site has our share of childish users and I have no intention of letting them use up net bandwidth indiscriminately. Rest assured that I don't plan on letting our users abuse their news privileges. My apologies if I caused a panic by letting everyone think that we were going to turn thousands of uneducated, unmonitored users loose on the net. -- Leonard J. Peirce Internet: peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu Western Michigan University peirce@gw.wmich.edu Academic Computer Center Voice: (616) 387-5430 Kalamazoo, MI 49008
root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) (02/14/89)
In article <648@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> peirce@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Leonard J. Peirce) writes: >Now that we have ANU News for VMS up and running, we have the capability >to allow ALL of the users here (approx. 15,000) access to news. Before we >do that, however, I was wondering what policies (if any) regarding access to >news are in place at other universites (or any other sites, for that matter). 15,000 new users on USENET!? Personally, I would like to see new USENET users allowed read-only access for a few weeks, until they become familiar with the standards and philosophy of USENET. Then, after passing a short written exam. to determine that they have in fact read the materials in news.announce.newusers, they would be eligible for access to postnews/Pnews. Larry Dighera -- USPS: The Consultants' Exchange, PO Box 12100, Santa Ana, CA 92712 TELE: (714) 842-6348: BBS (N81); (714) 842-5851: Xenix guest account (E71) UUCP: conexch Any ACU 2400 17148425851 ogin:-""-ogin:-""-ogin: nuucp UUCP: ...!uunet!turnkey!conexch!root || ...!trwrb!ucla-an!conexch!root