it's the treating us like five year olds that i am sick of.
granted, i have never attended a university other than BYU, so i don't have anything to compare against...
and, i am not arguing policies (although i am against many)...
my point is the way they implement/enforce/broadcast their policies. sure, a third of the campus are eighteen year old boys that still need baby-sitting, but the rest of us are working professionals that would like a nice, professional environment to get an education in.
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 10:10 US/Mountain, Hans Fugal wrote:
To be fair, I was paraphrasing (too lazy to look at the other message), and the true wording was "As a student of Brigham Young University this kind of behavior is not acceptable. If it continues it may result in speaking with people in the honor code office."
That reads a tad less threatening than my paraphrase. (At least to me it
conveys that he's not personally threatening, just warning me. He's
probably not the only person involved in these things)
* Wade Preston Shearer [Tue, 26 Aug 2003 at 09:57 -0600] <quote></quote>although i think that it is dumb... it is their network, so if they want to restrict that... they can... but...
their response of...
"as a BYU student this behavior is unacceptable and if it continues will be reported to the honor code office"
...is a stupid!
why is everything so extreme? what in the flying fig newton does port scanning your own server have to do with the honor code office?
why can't they simply inform you that BYU has a policy against port scanning from on campus?
On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 09:39 US/Mountain, Hans Fugal wrote:
Naturally you shouldn't be portscanning other people's computers anywhere, but don't even try portscanning your own off-campus server from on campus because BYU appears to be monitoring their logs for things. That's reassuring. The fact that they were two weeks late in contacting me about the portscan I did weakens that feeling of reassurance, though...
When I notified them that I was just scanning my own server to verify the firewall they politely said 'as a BYU student this behavior is unacceptable and if it continues will be reported to the honor code office'. I suggest you just stay off the radar and avoid portscanning from on campus period.
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