I appreciate your information.
So the fact somebody's website is hosted somewhere at Penn or Villanova,
probably doesn't say anything at all about Penn's or Villanova's
supposed "influence" over it. In off-campus neighborhoods, IT geeks hook
up their neighbors with cheap service via access to universities
wherever they know IT pals. Welcome to University City, all you West
Philadelphians!
When universities actually seek to control internet information, you
will find their internet trail all too easy to trace. I speak as one who
once worked in university PR. Universities are all about labeling,
publishing, controlling and crediting. If there were any substantial
drive by Penn to control a listserve, you would soon read it in its
contents. But you won't figure it out by the addie. Universities are
capable of many bad deeds, but they are almost constitutionally
incapable of being sneaky in the true sense of the word. They are too
beholden to their internal networks of information release and approval.
-- Tony West
Andrew Diller wrote:
None. Having worked at upenn (for the central computing authority) for
a few years, I know there are too many machines out there for the
people like that to care. This could be anything from a large unix
host that is part of the villanova core campus computing
infrastructure, to a forgotten pc in a closet in the basement of the
philosophy building or a pc in a dorm or a friend. It's just hooked up
somewhere at Villanova.
The fact that they host the DNS records means that Jeff knows someone
there in the admin office that put those records in and keep them in.
It would cost them nothing to maintain the DNS records.
However, I do notice that the purple list is a lot slower in Lent, and
that postings with the word 'meat' in them are bounced sometimes on
Fridays.
-andy
Anthony West wrote:
Based on your experience, what sort of control do you think the Pope,
or the Franciscan Order, or Villanova Univ. exercises over the
content of this unmoderated UC-list, based on the mere fact of its
mechanical address? Suppose the list became moderated instead -- how
would that change the influence that Main Line Roman Catholicism now
wields over UC-list as we know it?
-- Tony West
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