Hello Adam!

Tuesday January 16 1996 01:17, Adam Smith wrote to All:

 > I apologise to all those who receive this from other posts but I am posting
 > this everywhere in the hope that it will stamp out censorship of the
 > Internet as is being done by the University of Southern Queensland.

[...]
 > I am a bit pissed off by the loss of my ppp adapter (SLIRP) in my account
 > during the "CLEANSING" and I know it is promised along with
 IRC access but
 > like the Newsgroups of Last Year and the quotas and NOW the  TIME-LIMITS
 > what sort of limitations can we expect? Maybe we won't be able to access
 > certain pornographic channels or those promoting certain  religious
 > beliefs.

My university is not an internet service provider. Their computing (and
internet) facilities are provided for academic use, and officially, any
non-academic use is forbidden. I think USQ would have a similar policy.
IRC, drugs newsgroups, PPP adapters are usually very non-academic. Hence
their being banned.

You're lucky you're allowed to have your PPP adapter. We lose accounts for
using such things. Which (although you mightn't agree) is a good policy,
because it means that when academic work needs to be done, you can get
through to the university, instead of waiting while other people look at
http://www.playboy.com.


While you complain about newsgroup censorship your post to the newsgroup
did not cover that at all.


Regards,
Hamish

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