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publicly-readable "adult" gifs (was Re: Ohio State University CIS Policies)

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From: J Greely
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 22:23
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In article <1991Jun7.180227.4515@eff.org> kadie@eff.org (Carl M. Kadie) writes:
>In <JGREELY.91Jun7130139@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) writes:
>>A combination of university rules and state law.
>Can you be more specific? What rules? What law?

The university's sexual harrassment rules, and the state law on making
"pornography" available to minors (we *do* get some).  After one
incident, the chairman (in response to a threatened lawsuit) was quite
prepared to order all questionable images deleted, and future
offenders treated harshly.  Fortunately, that didn't happen, but it
could.

>It sounds like you selectively enforce your disk quotas based on
>how much the content might embarrass the department chairman.

It sounds like you don't read too well.  If you're within your quota,
we don't care what you have in there, but in the specific case of R-
or X-rated graphic images, we care about the file permissions.  The
only "selective enforcement" of disk quotas is based on the relevance
of the files to the funded purpose of the system (computer science
instruction).  If you're over quota because of course work, we'll work
with you to solve the problem (possibly increasing your quota).  If
it's because of saved news or GIF files, we'll tell you to get rid of
them.  How much it "embarrasses the chairman" has *nothing* to do with
it.


				"Sexual harassment at work -- is it a
				 problem for the self-employed?"
--
J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)
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From: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
Subject: publicly-readable "adult" gifs
 (was Re: Ohio State University CIS Policies)
Summary: actually relevant to OSU-CIS this time...
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