Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy From: zoo@cygnus.com (david d 'zoo' zuhn) Subject: Re: Mankato State University's policy on Academic Computer Usage Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 02:31:05 GMT Message-ID: [ The Mankato State policy, for full text, see referenced article. ] The following are some examples of actions which may be considered as violations of this policy: Using userids to play games or send messages to another. What? I can't send mail? Or use talk(1)? This is so vague as to be unenforceable, I'd imagine. david d 'zoo' zuhn | The problem with politics is that it puts you in cygnus support | contact with the sort of people that you'd really zoo@cygnus.com | rather try to avoid. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) Subject: Re: Mankato State University's policy on Academic Computer Usage Message-ID: <1992Oct17.160842.21981@news.columbia.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 16:08:42 GMT In article n13@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Leonard J. Schmidt) writes: > > The following is Mankato State University's official policy on >academic computer usage. This policy appears, as worded, posted on > > [...] >Academic computing resources on the Mankato State University Campus >are for use in the instructional, research, and outreach activities of >the University only. > [...] > >Student users are authorized to use the resources only under their own >userids, and only for those purposes authorized by their instructor or >projects under which they have authorized access. Instructors have the >right to review the class activity of any user in that class. > These statments lead me to believe that your philosophy behind the policy is that students are only allowed to use the computers for _specific_ class projects. In other words, an instructor will say "write a program that does _____", and the class will use the machines to compose and debug thier assignments, and for no other purpose. Students may not send e-mail, read news, write programs other than those assigned, experiment with the OS or languages, use word proccessors except as required for the assignments. If my interpretation is correct, then the policy is fine. If the policy you want is not a rigid as what I have described, then you are in trouble. DanZ -- "I think it is a little premature to attribute the failures of American foriegn policy to Carl Kadie." -Mike Godwin This article for entertainment purposes only.