Word: newsgroup
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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Crimson reporters who quoted from messages posted to Internet newsgroups caused a furor, and angry epistles were written in reply to the general Harvard newsgroup as well as the one meant for the Computer Science 161 course...
...only complicating factor is that newsgroup postings can be forged, as kiosk postings can. Just as a person can put up a poster and sign it with someone else's name, so can a sufficiently devious hacker...
...said he reads the newsgroup occasionally andadded that excessive downtime is a legitimatesource of student complaints...
Harvard's newsgroups, or electronic bulletin boards, are likely to be more closely regulated during the next academic year. One possible reform would be to create a new newsgroup to handle computer-related questions which appear frequently on the newsgroup "harvard. general." Under this plan, "harvard.general" would thenbe freed up for discussion of broader campusissues...
...message to the "harverd.general"newsgroup, Burner apologized for shutting downvarious services during the installation of thenew machine...