Putting Univ. of Pittsburgh instead of Carnegie Mellon is my
mistake and I sincerely apologize. I was working from memory or (as my
former law partner would say) "working without the proper tools again." :)
Paul D. Healey J.D. (graduate student and technology lab coordinator),
School of Library and Information Science
3071 Main Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52241
email: phealey@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Phone: 319-335-6478
"I once spent an entire day without food and an entire night without
sleep in order to meditate. I found no advantage in it. It is better to learn."
--Confucius
On Fri, 6 Jan 1995, George H Pike wrote:
> Paul and others
>
> In defense and in clarification, it was Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
> in Pittsburgh, not the University of Pittsburgh, that moved to
> unilaterally restrict access to several Usenet groups containing
> porographic material. The issue created a certain uproar at Pitt and
> policies are being reviewed. A couple of our faculty have been consulted
> on constitutional issues. CMU has backed down to some extent, limiting
> access at this point to visual (.binary, etc.) files, not print files.
> The local spin is that CMU did nobody any favor by their actions,
> particulary not Pitt.
>
> George H. Pike
> Director of the Law Library
> University of Pittsburgh School of Law
> 3900 Forbes Avenue
> Pittsburgh, PA 15260
>
> On Tue, 3 Jan 1995, Paul D. Healey wrote:
>
> > I would strongly advise a against content oriented prohibition. The
> > definitional problems of such an approach are a true quagmire, and the
> > constitutional issues even more so. Then there is the potential for bad
> > p.r. (Remember the U. of Pittsburgh?), and so on.
> >
> > Paul D. Healey J.D. (graduate student and technology lab coordinator),
> > School of Library and Information Science
> > 3071 Main Library, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52241
> > email: phealey@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu Phone: 319-335-6478
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 03/09/00 PST