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Re: Student access to internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark.I.Berman@williams.edu)
Tue Feb 1 09:41:04 1994
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 09:15:49 -0500
Reply-To: Mark.I.Berman@williams.edu
From: Mark.I.Berman@williams.edu
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We allow full Internet access from both public labs and residence halls. So
far we have had no problems.
- Mark
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Mark Berman Mark.Berman@Williams.EDU
Director, Technical Services
Williams College, Ctr. for Computing
Williamstown, MA. USA 01267 (413) 597-2092
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> Subj: Student access to internet
>
> We are planning to connect a couple of residence halls to the campus
> network in the summer of 1994. We plan one ethernet connection per bed.
> That leads to a question about policy where we could benefit from the
> experience of others.
>
> From microcomputers in faculty/staff offices we allow direct access to
> the internet via telnet, gopher, mosaic
>
> From public equipment (e.g., computer labs), we allow access only to
> local servers and local host computers, so a user can only telnet
> to other sites by logging onto a local host, not from a microcomputer
> directly.
>
> I would like to know the kind of access other institutions allow to
> the internet from residence hall room microcomputers:
> Only through a local host computer?
> Direct ethernet access from microcomputers?
> Ethernet access from microcomputers only with some kind of
> authentication - and if so, what kind of authentication?
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> Joe Palmieri
> Director of Computing
> Irvin E. Houck Computing Center fpalmieri@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu
> Oberlin College phone: 216-775-8290
> Oberlin, Ohio 44074 fax: 216-775-8573
