Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 32038
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1997/1/8 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA] UID:32038 Activity:nil
1/8     thread rearranged. I have a "solution"
        the draft says "Eligibility to Use Campus Email"
        CSUA will just have to restrict /usr/lib/sendmail
        for use by students only.  Alumni cant use email... wheee!!!
         \_ Members of group "alumni" will also be forbidden from
            using trn/tin/pine/etc. as newsgroups are defined as
            a form of e-mail by the policy.

        \_ YOU LOSE.  UCB HAS BANNED ALL ALUMNI ACCOUNTS ON ALL
         *.BERKELEY.EDU MACHINES EFFECTIVE 1/1/97.  (Be
         prepared to say goodbye to your soda accounts soon.)
        \_ Perhaps we could push for some kind of precedent that would
           allow alumni organizations to allow alumnis accounts for the
           sole purpose of conducting University-related discourse?
         \_ Don't forget about all the job recommendations and
          general advice/wisdom to be gotten from alumni.
          If the CSUA kills my Berkeley account, then I
          won't have much of a link to current Berkeley
          students.
          \_ The CSUA doesn't want to remove alumni accounts.
             We know alumni are good.  If we are forced to it
             will only be because everything else we've tried,
             including appeals to the Chancellor have failed.
             This isn't over yet - it hasn't even started.
         \_ Darn.  I wish I had gone to Stanfurd.  The graduates
          there get accounts at http://alumni.stanford.org.
          But then again, they give money to the school.
          If IS&T won't let me have an alumni account,
          I won't give money to the school.  I know at
          Davis you pay a flat fee of $500 or so to
          get lifetime alumni library privileges,
          discounts, and maybe an e-mail account too?
          Is there something like this from the
          Cal Alumni Association?  --pcjr
          \_ The alumni association uses the campus net
             connection and is also prohibited from giving
             out alumni accounts.  They will set you up with
             a deal with Netcom though.  -alanc-
           \_ What is the deal with Netcom though?
            Can one choose an ISP?
            Not having a Berkeley acct kinda
            defeats the purpose of alumniship,
            if you ask me.  --pcjr
         \_ For those who think this is a hoax, look at
            http://uas.berkeley.edu:7355/emailpol/elig.html
            and see if you can find any way to allow alumni
            accounts given the limitations there.
           \_ "Departments may provide email service to contractors,
        independent consultants, or other qualifying
        individuals for the sole purpose of conducting their
        business with the University."
        How about we all become Brian Harvey's personal
        consultants. Unspecified tasks to be done, of course.
        And we would work for free. -- lars
         \_ we won't have to get rid of soda alumni accounts,
            we just have to give a timeline for getting rid
            of them, say 100 years after graduation..
            \_ Get a clue, if you do that, IS&T will simplely close
        the loophole very quickly.
         \_ What might this mean for majordomo mailing lists run off
            CSUA?  Is this an inappropriate use of "campus email"? -stevie
         \_ Not as far as anyone can find in the policy.
          \_Is soda.csua "owned or operated by the University or any of
            its sub-units"?  If not, or if it's not well-defined, I don't
            see what the fuss is about.  It seems like the documents are
            too vague for IS&T to have a point. -stevie
         \_ IS&T has stated they consider any and all machines
            connected to the campus network to be subject to this
            policy, whether the University "owns" them or not. -alanc-
        \_ Why?  --- yuen
         \_ Because alumni don't give money to IS&T and they're
           jealous of all the other places on campus alumni do
                  get money (and they just figured out they can screw
           over the rest of the campus this way)
           \_ I thought CSUA is not under IS$T.  Maybe they don't
              even like the fact that non IS$T machines are using
              campus ethernet.  --- yuen
          \_ IS&T runs the campus network - they make the
             policies everyone connected to the network
             (including the CSUA and people's home computers
             using Home-IP or in-room dorm connections) must
             follow.   -alanc-
           \_ So I can't allow my alumni friends to use
           my computer?  Golly.  hahahhahahahhah
            \_ Not if they're using
             UCB's net connection.
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