From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: Kindness Date: 1999/09/03 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520779294 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com> <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au> <7qood6$h3f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 936394811 nnrp-02:1132 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: None User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.4 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:10:41 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: >several students at NYU last semester who got into severe >trouble doing this, and that seems quite appropriate to me). Apparently this year has been especially bad for it, all of the "ancient" Scottish Universities (Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and St Andrews) had problems with this, half of one of Edinburgh's first year CS course was under investigation at one point. I think it's awful that this is causing some people (journalists mostly) to complain that the net is letting people get access to information too easily, but it's equally awful that this is happening. Disclaimer: I'm a 2nd yr Computing Science student at the University of Glasgow[1] - Aidan [1] Would be 3rd year, but I'm repeating a year due to depression :/ -- http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/ http://www.gla.ac.uk/Clubs/WebSoc/~9704075s/ What evil shall I do today?