kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker) (11/13/85)
In article <1131@jhunix.UUCP> ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee) writes: >PS: I am pleased to announce that Johns Hopkins no longer prohibits reading >of net.news or net.news.group, though other groups such as most other >net.news.* subgroups and net.unix are still on the proscribed list. Why do JH do this? I'd be very interested to see a copy of the proscription list, with the reasons for the groups being proscribed, and which categories of users are prohibited from reading which groups. Kay. -- "Be careful: the system is complex and chaotic, though it has many attractive features..." _The Pot-holes of the Yorkshire Moors_ ... mcvax!ukc!warwick!flame!kay
ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (11/16/85)
> Why do JH do this? I'd be very interested to see a copy of the proscription > list, with the reasons for the groups being proscribed, and which categories > of users are prohibited from reading which groups. > The Engineering Computing Facility has its head up its posterior and its been that way since its inception. An exemplary policy of theirs was to shut the UNIX machine used by nearly everyone in the departments for text processing during the last week of the semester and the finals period (of course, this is when everyone is writing their papers) in order to do site preparation on a yet to be delivered VMS machine. I'm probably not going to offend anyone down there since they don't bother to read net.news.group.