Word: bulletin
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...sweep, when it came last month, was swift and thorough. Dozens of Italian customs officers fanned out across the country and began pounding on doors in Milan, Bologna, Pisa and Pesaro. Their target: a loose alliance of computer bulletin-board operators suspected of trafficking in stolen software. By last week, according to unofficial reports, the Italian police had shut down more than 60 computer bulletin boards and seized 120 computers, dozens of modems and more than 60,000 floppy disks. In their zeal, say the suspects, some officers of the Guardia di Finanza grabbed anything even remotely high-tech, including...
...government actions to stem the losses may be causing more problems than they solve. The Italian campaign, which began just as the newly elected right- wing government of media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi took office, hit largely left-leaning bulletin boards. And it is seen by some Italians as an ill- disguised attempt to suppress free speech on a troublesome new medium. In the U.S. a widely publicized federal case against a college student accused of operating a pirate bulletin board may backfire if, as expected, a judge rules that the charges filed against the student do not fit the crime...
Roughly four out of every five undergraduatesnow have accounts on the network. And with thefirst-year Yard Bulletin and the housing lotterybeing run in cyberspace, virtually every member offuture first-year classes is expected...
With a critical mass of undergraduates on-line,some instructors are requiring students to turnpapers and assignments in over the network. Andother classes, including Literature and Arts B-77:"Worlds of music--Africa," Physics 15c andComputer Science 50, communicate with thoseenrolled via electronic bulletin boards callednewsgroups...
...gaps were filled with European refugees,retired professors, humanities teachers given aquick cram refresher and even "threeundergraduates and a woman," according to anAlumni Bulletin of the time...