gaspar@demo1.inf.ethz.ch (Scott "gaspo" Gasparian) (03/21/91)
Hi all,
I received many responses to my requests for information on contract
type agreements for students who use our machines. The biggest
collection that is archived at ftp.cs.widener.edu (192.55.239.132) by
Brendan Kehoe (thanks Brendan!!). Also, Dave Grisham at U New Mexico
has a collection (I haven't checked these yet) in unma.unm.edu /ethics
with thanks to J Greely <jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu> for pointing me
there.
Basically, I found that the policies come in two flavors: rules and
suggestions. What I did was cull through all the different documents
from the various universities, and threw a general summary together.
I also stumbled across a script called "policy" that cats selected
documents to the users terminal upon initial login, and records that
they have seen the documents. I don't remember where I got it from,
(it may have been a .sources group), but I can mail it to you if you
ask real nice, or send mail to "bud" at bbh@mtek.com (thats the only
name in the file).
Thanks to john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) and andyb@coat.com (Andy
Behrens) who both sent me their organizations policy statements.
Also, "I.G.Batten" <I.G.Batten%fulcrum.bt.co.uk@axion.bt.co.uk>
raised some interesting comments about the applicability of
state/local/national laws to such policies and the connection of
Computer Science Departement Policies with the University Policies
(i.e., breaking into a students account is the same as cheating on a
final, and crashing the system is the same as blowing up the
registrars office (my analogies)).
Once again, thanks to all, and I will forward my finished docs to
Brendan as soon as they are all cleaned up and smelling like lawyers.
--gaspo.
BTW, my personalpinion is this is all evil. To quote a friend of
mine,
"Any society that needs disclaimers has to many lawyers."
-E.Pepke
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