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From: plummer@cs.swarthmore.edu (David Barker-Plummer)
Subject: Re: net.views -- computer crime
In-Reply-To: wagner@utoday.com's message of 2 Oct 92 21:13:24 GMT
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:06:53 GMT

In article <1992Oct02.211324.12465@utoday.com> wagner@utoday.com (Mitch Wagner)
 writes:

MW> Do you consider computer crime to be a threat to your system?


MW> This question is being posted to gather responses for a regular
MW> opinion column in OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY called "net.views."

MW> By posting a response to this topic, you are granting
MW> permission for OPEN SYSTEMS TODAY to publish your response. A
MW> compilation of the responses to this post will be posted here about
MW> two weeks from today.

MW> Please include in your response your name, your employer, your job
MW> title, and location. Or, if you identify yourself as a student, please
MW> give your class standing (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, grad),
MW> the school and its location. Please also provide a telephone number
MW> where you can be reached during the daytime (overseas readers note:
MW> that's daytime in North America).

MW> Please be brief; try to limit your responses to two screens
MW> (24x80) of text, not including headers and other administrivia.

MW> Thanks!

MW> -- mitch w.
MW> --
MW> Mitch Wagner, senior editor, Open Systems Today
MW> 2353 Massachusetts Ave. Suite 47, Cambridge, MA 02140
MW> wagner@utoday.com  (617)547-8485  CIS:70212,51  GEnie:MITCH.WAGNER
MW> For subscription information, please call 516/562-5882

So let me get this straight.  You are soliciting information from the
net.community at no cost to yourself, so that you can sell this
information as part of your magazine?

This sounds to me like a commercial use of the net, which (as I
understand it) is prohibited by the rules of NSFnet which forms part
of the Internet on which this post is distributed.

Even if it weren't prohibited, don't you think that asking people to
work for you without compensation is a tad unreasonable?

-- Dave

[Moderator's comment: I approved this posting despite the semi-commercial
nature of the OPEN SYSTEMS appeal because a promise to post result to
the net was included.  Also, net users will be able to make their own
conclusions about the response rate and copyright issues - if their are
few responses, will it be due to unwillingness to "work for nothing" or
simply a reflection of low interest in this forum?  If results are not
posted as promised, it will be the last such posting from OPEN SYSTEMS.
---
Greg Welsh, moderator, comp.society
Internet:  Socicom@american.edu
Bitnet:    Socicom@auvm.bitnet ]