From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 18:16:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC1D37B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7M1Gke12975; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:16:46 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: legg@iastate.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Iowa State Univ. Message-ID: <20000821181646.K4854@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from legg@iastate.edu on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 07:41:19PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * legg@iastate.edu [000821 17:41] wrote: > Hello, > > I am a student at Iowa State. I just recently installed FreeBSD and was > successful at doing that. But no sooner than I did that, the computation > center here started requiring an 'electronic regristration' of all > computers that use university managed network services. The result, I am > in a computer lab doing my e-mail and internet work. > > What I am looking for is to see if anybody knows any organization in which > I can post grevieances too. ISU has a bad habit of shoving off student > complaints in the computation center. If there is any organization that > will stand up for me, that would be nice, because I suddenly feel very > alone. I'm not sure what the problem is with registering a FreeBSD machine on thier network, is there a specific policy against it? Do you have a URL to this policy? It'd be pretty nice to see it up on slashdot if it's some form of 'super-evil MIS dept gone insane' type situation. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message