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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: Joshua Lederberg <jsl@ROCKVAX.ROCKEFELLER.EDU>
Subject: Re: history of acceptable use policies
X-cc: David Smith <smithx@SFU.CA>
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This is somewhat anachronistic; but I recall a serious flap circa 1967, about students using the ARPANET to circulate anti-(VN)war propaganda. DARPA had to send out a notice that the whole system was put in jeopardy by such uses; we all understood how unenforceable that was.
The perplexities of AUP's led me to remark that:
(Proc. IEEE for Nov. 1978 vol. 66, No. 1, pp 1314-1319) "....
evoking images of the warm bodies at the terminals. This intimacy can and should be supported by encouraging the occasional use of the EUGRAM system for arranging personal rendezvous. The trivial costs of such diversions are more than compensated by the enhanced efficiency of a worker who becomes adept at the use of EUGRAMs as if they were an extension of his own voice or handwriting. ....."
Little did I know!
Reply-to: lederberg@mail.rockefeller.edu
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Comments: RFC822 error: <W> TO field duplicated. Last occurrence was
retained.
From: Joshua Lederberg <jsl@ROCKVAX.ROCKEFELLER.EDU>
Subject: Re: history of acceptable use policies
X-cc: David Smith <smithx@SFU.CA>
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
This is somewhat anachronistic; but I recall a serious flap circa 1967, about students using the ARPANET to circulate anti-(VN)war propaganda. DARPA had to send out a notice that the whole system was put in jeopardy by such uses; we all understood how unenforceable that was.
The perplexities of AUP's led me to remark that:
(Proc. IEEE for Nov. 1978 vol. 66, No. 1, pp 1314-1319) "....
evoking images of the warm bodies at the terminals. This intimacy can and should be supported by encouraging the occasional use of the EUGRAM system for arranging personal rendezvous. The trivial costs of such diversions are more than compensated by the enhanced efficiency of a worker who becomes adept at the use of EUGRAMs as if they were an extension of his own voice or handwriting. ....."
Little did I know!
Reply-to: lederberg@mail.rockefeller.edu
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