On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:35, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > phrasing isn't important to me... > > 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.
<asbestos_underwear> I've been following this thread, and I'm interested in why this is such an issue. I mean, we all applied to go to this University, nobody forced us, we chose. So I guess having policies that we don't like means that we don't have a choice anymore. I mean, nobody _ever_ transfers away from BYU, for any reason, and if we have a enough of a problem with whatever policy, each of us are free to do the same. If it isn't important enough to leave for, then we should learn to live with rules we don't like, because that's just the way life is. Maybe _thats_ part of getting an education. </asbestos_underwear> All that said, it would be nice if the University showed a little bit of trust in its students every once in a while. Flame away... Hyrum > > 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> > >> 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. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. > >>> http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg > >>> http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 > >>> <mime-attachment>____________________ > >>> BYU Unix Users Group > >>> http://uug.byu.edu/ > >>> ___________________________________________________________________ > >>> List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > >> > >> > >> > >> ____________________ > >> BYU Unix Users Group > >> http://uug.byu.edu/ > >> ___________________________________________________________________ > >> List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > </quote> > > > > -- > > Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. > > http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg > > http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 > > <mime-attachment>____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Need an Open Source Genealogy tool? Help write one! http://openancestry.sourceforge.net/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
