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[Week ending June 28, 1992

  [This issues guest editor is Lorrie Ackerman, lorracks@wucs1.wustl.edu
     - Carl]

========================== KEY ================================
The words after the numbers are a short PARAPHRASES of the
articles, or QUOTES from them, NOT AN OBJECTIVE SUMMARY and
not necessarily my opinion.
===============================================================

1. It is nearly impossible to keep students from posting to news, and there
is no good reason to do this.  "It would seem to me that a little user
education, and instilling a sense of responsibility in students....would
be a lot more effective, and probably a lot less work."
    <pschleck.709318357@odin>

2. Speculations on "why the First Amendment uses the language 'Congress
shall make no law....' while the remainder of the Bill of Rights uses
language like 'the right to [something] shall not be violated.'"
    <BqD4B4.2Lx@unx.sas.com>

3. The news system for the Cleveland Free-Net "has been patched to support
anonymous newsgroups as a class of moderated newsgroups, and all identifying
information is removed from the header of an article before it is mailed
to the moderator....The system seems to be quite effective...."
    <9206250251.AA04855@nextsun.INS.CWRU.Edu>

4. Information overload on the net could be eased by the addition of meta
discussion groups in which self-selected commentators make short comments
on posts.  People could write kill files to select articles to read
based on these comments.
    <1992Jun25.092338.8704@cadlab.sublink.org>

5. "I have extensively revised and expanded many of the computing policies
that apply to the largest educational network at Rice, Owlnet."  Includes
notes on Rice's University Computing Policy, Owlnet Policies, Owlnet Policies
Enforcement Guidelines, Owlnet Student Advisory Committee Charter, System
Administrator Statement of Ethics, and Owlnet Application Agreement.  Also
includes access information for these documents.
    <1992Jun27.181753.21585@eff.org>

- Lorrie]



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