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...announcement posted on the HASCS newsgroup message board on Friday by Bill Ouchark, HASCS manager of networking and UNIX systems, had aroused fears among many students that HASCS might restrict all outside access by erecting a firewall to reduce the extremely heavy traffic that the network has been facing in recent weeks...
...days, a flawed culture could be healed by dragging a bunch of network executives up to Capitol Hill and giving them a stern talking-to; through the democratized medium of the Internet, content can be distributed worldwide after it has been reviewed by only one moderator in a newsgroup--or even no one at all. ("The horror! The horror!") To deal with this new development, our irrational fear of the Internet--and our irrational faith in the power of a technological quick fix--must both be discarded. When faced with such a powerful medium, society simply can't afford...
Davis would not say how HASCS was limiting network traffic, but a message from FAS Network Operations to the HASCS newsgroup yesterday said HASCS had placed restrictions "limiting the bandwidth of packets matching the signature of the Napster application...
HASCS has posted electronic warnings about the virus on its website and newsgroup and has also put up paper versions around campus...
Operations posted two messages to the Harvard newsgroup explaining the problems. The first message explained that the program allowing computers on the network to generate unique addresses suddenly failed Friday. This meant that both e-mail and all Internet sites based in the Harvard system were inaccessible...