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In article <1992Oct2.211604.3005@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>feit@ERA.COM (Mark Feit) writes:
>
>[...]
>>When most colleges/universities give you an account, you get it for
>>the sole purpose of completing assignments in a course, for research,
>>etc.
>
>Happily, more and more schools now have the resources to provide free
>accounts for general use. This is consisent with the academic ideal in
>which members of the academic community have some freedom to explore
>their own interests. It is analogous to most academic libraries that
>don't ask to know and don't care why you are browsing and borrowing
>books.

Spoken with the incredible breadth of knowledge you have gained from
association with a small number of well funded schools.

Perhaps one of these days you will join the real world, where schools
are struggling to provide enough resources just for students currently
enrolled in a course that needs computers.  But then, on the other
hand, why should this concern you - after all, you have never allowed
your ignorance to prevent you from trying to dictate policy to the
rest of the world.

>When resources are scarce, priorities have to be established. These
>priorities should not, however, be used to removed material just
>because some find it offensive. For example, if there are no resources
>for "recreational" newsgroups, then both alt.sex and
>rec.sport.football should go, not just alt.sex.

So I suppose that a poorly funded program in phys ed must deny its
football program access to rec.sport.football, just because it doesn't
happen to have resources for alt.sex?

Wake up, Carl.  The world is a complex place.  There are many good
reasons for limitations when resources are short.  But the reasons are
local, so global solutions dictated by self appointed net gods will not
do.