Use of ``vi'' for business office word-processing

[System Mangler]

In article <810 at aimmi.UUCP>, gilbert at aimmi.UUCP (Gilbert Cockton) writes:
> I'd be curious to see how many people see computer file space as personal
> space into which no-one should intrude, regardless of access permissions.

The policy on our student machine is:
    "Do not read other people's files without explicit permission."

where "explicit" means "they specifically told you that you could look".
Don't want those students learning too much, do we?

I think the purpose of the policy was to "protect" the people who
didn't know how to chmod files, primarily TOPS-20 users, i.e. all
the faculty and staff.	Despite the effective demise of TOPS-20,
the policy refuses to go away.	Everyone violates it; the faculty
sponser likes the rule because it ensures that he always has grounds
for kicking off anyone who he thinks is misbehaving.

Don Speck   speck at vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers}!cit-vax!speck
(The views I express are not necessarily those of Caltech CS).