Word: ua
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After criticism from students in past years that HASCS did a poor job publicizing its rules on etiquette and that the rules themselves were vague, HASCS has apparently shifted to a reliance upon common sense in network etiquette, according to a HASCS user assistant (UA) who asked not to be identified...
According to the UA, when first-years access their accounts for the first time, they will be taken to a shell program that allows users to confirm their name and address, choose information to be displayed on the finger and ph commands, activate room datajacks, change their password and take an etiquette quiz...
...quiz consists of 10 questions about etiquette that can be answered by common sense, such as, are you allowed to look at someone else's account, the UA said...
...Personally I'm impressed with the changes theymade," said David A. Sherwood' 95, a former userassistant (UA) for HASCS. "I think they becamemuch more responsive to the Harvard community bothin terms of attention they pay to user assistanceas well as the overall upgrading of the hardware...
...They now have weekly training meetings, andthey had a postering campaign to try to encouragemore people to apply and become a UA," Kim says...