XPost: alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox, alt.books.beatgeneration,   
   alt.usage.english   
   XPost: soc.culture.south-africa, rec.arts.books, misc.education   
   XPost: sci.anthropology   
   From: zaphenath@NOmiraiSPAM.cx   
      
   Chris Malcolm wrote:   
   > Ferdi Greyling  writes:   
   >   
   >   
   >>On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 11:55:43 +0000 (UTC), cam@holyrood.ed.ac.uk (Chris   
   >>Malcolm) wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >><<>My university, recognising the serious threat to their mental   
   >>   
   >>>stability, not to mention the quality of their degree, forbids   
   >>>students newsgroup write access. I'm surprised this simple remedy to a   
   >>>serious modern social problem is not more widely adopted.>>   
   >   
   >   
   >>Are you saying you reckon it is good for people to be told to shut   
   >>up?!   
   >   
   >   
   > I apologise for the ambiguity. The students are not told to shut   
   > up. That wouldn't solve the problem. In fact it might make it worse.   
   > They are simply not supplied with write access to newsgroups. Problem   
   > solved to the benefit of all.   
      
   I do not think this solves the problem at all.  Not even by your   
   definition of the problem (to which I do not subscribe).  Google Groups,   
   for instance, provides write access to usenet for anyone with an   
   internet connection.  So, nobody is actually hindered from posting   
   simply because their university's news server does not allow them write   
   access.   
      
   And it does not solve the problem in   
   alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox, in which two contributors who are   
   both over the 50-year mark contribute at least 85% of the off-topic   
   materials.  The fact that they are each other's devils only makes it   
   worse.   
      
   I can not speak for the "degeneration" in the other groups in this   
   x-posted thread; but college students are not the worst of the problem   
   in a.r.c.e-o.   
      
   - Joseph   
      
      
   --   
   "One should guard against preaching to young people success   
   in the customary form as the main aim in life.  The most   
   important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure   
   in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the   
   value of the result to the rest of the community."   
           -- Albert Einstein   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)