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Kirk Brown (brown@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:

: informing UCIS that people were using IS for their own businesses.  (As 
: far as I can tell, those people are still operating businesses)  
: That's right, students are using computer accounts at Dal for business 
: purposes.  I've even caught people on UG and AC doing this as well.  I 
: think we can all agree that this is not academic work.

: When I refer to "business" it is not a person selling a used item, it is 
: a person (or persons) offering services for creating web pages, building 
: computer systems, etc...

: UCIS will probably never do anything to stop this activity.  I haven't 
: seen UCIS do anything.  This makes me think that the "Guide to 
: Responsible Computing" is a joke.

There could be a number of reasons your request went unanswered:

-Who did you send the message to? Did you check back with UCIS after a few
weeks to see if anything had been done? UCIS gets hundreds of messages
everyday, it is possible yours "slipped through the cracks".

-They are very busy - and might not have had time to check the page right away.
They certainly don't have time to go through all the pages on IS to check for
guideline violations.

-It was deemed that the page in question was following guidelines.

How about complaining to the owner of the web page specifically if you feel
they are violating guidelines?

I think it's a little premature to jump on UCIS for not acting on your 
complaint.

I'd at least get back to them a second time so they know it is still going on. 
They may have already issued a warning.