Re: Seen recently at ITD, [..etc..]

Ryan Shelswell (Ryan.Shelswell@nospam.uts.edu.au)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:40:55 +1000 (EAST)

>I wouldn't have thought it was the role of the administrator to determine
>the relevance of materials in an account to that account owners course
>work. When an account is over quota you don't NEED to look at all the
>files to solve the problem.

It sounded to me like students are allowed to be over the quota if they
have course-related materials they're working on (which is good), but the
way this is run means that the admins perv through their files to make sure
they are course-related (which is bad from a privacy standpoint).

If you're going to let people have more space when they have course reasons,
someone has to decide if the stuff is course reasons or not (unless you
just believe 'em).

Of course, looking through people's files is pretty much the same at
looking at dirty pictures you get from the 'net, isn't it?

Ryan