Re: "TCP Port Lock-down" & Free-speech @ UCB

From: Mike Hunter <mhunter_at_ack.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 10:15:22 PDT

> I have a feeling this person wrote what they wrote in response to a
> situation in a department somewhere. I do think it's reasonable for a
> departmental administrator to audit what resources are being allocated to
> what and whether those resources fit in with the needs of the department.
> It's an interesting line to draw; it certainly wouldn't feel wrong to me
> for an employee to compose and send an email critical of their departmental
> chairperson on their PC, but if the same employee set up a web server on
> their PC with similar content, it would feel like they're burdening their
> departmental admin and "wasting" resources.

Just to be clear, what I'm saying above would apply equally to an email
or web server devoted to Bonnie Raitt or The Society for the Prevention of
Plate Tectonics...the point's not the content, it's using University
resources for non-work-related business.

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