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Article #260Re: Using news for internal communications
From: Nick Szabo
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 06:12
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 06:12
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Carl M. Kadie writes: > Security is provided by restricting networking to trusted machines and > by having some groups accessable only by people who belong to proper > Unix file-protection group. So, for example, only faculty can read the > professor's notesfile. What is the rationale for segregating readers into different groups? Is there information students should not be privy to (such as grades or exam questions) posted to the faculty group? Conversely, does information that might be valuable for a student ever get posted to the faculty group, where the student can't get at it? Nick Szabo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!limbo!taylor From: szabo%sequent.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Nick Szabo) Newsgroups: comp.society Subject: Re: Using news for internal communications Message-ID: <1566@limbo.Intuitive.Com> Date: 2 Jan 91 06:12:11 GMT Sender: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 14 Approved: taylor@Limbo.Intuitive.Com