🚀 go-pugleaf

pollock@milton.u.washington.edu (Joe Pollock) writes:
>As we prepare to get on the internet, we are considering also considering
>the issue of alum access.  The alumni association wishes to keep in contact
>with as many individuals as possible, and is attempting to find out how many
>of our alumni have some form of e-mail access, and how many would use it for
>contacts.
>I'm a bit envious of those of you who say "Give the Alumni Association
>a spare workstation."  At this time, we have one workstation for our
>Internet connection, and several AT&T 3B2's for DOS networking and UNIX
>classroom support.  Quite frankly, the UNIX environment has not been
>particularly popular here, in a liberal arts environment,  and it's
>difficult to generate support for resources used by a very small fraction
>of the community.  
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This is an issue of policy, not resources.  If you believe the POLICY
should be to give accounts to alumni, that's the important thing.  Let
the Alumni Association BUY their own machine (or get an alum who works
for a computer company to donate one).
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu