On 10 Jan 2003, at 2:41, don penlington wrote:

> No great problem if you are wise and careful---but we aren't all, so
> warnings of dire consequences might not be amiss.

  Most file-sharing clients seem to make it easy to offer all/most of your
files for sharing by others -- possibly including not only copyright
violations, or other violations of the network AUP (Acceptible Use Policy),
but also sharing files whose content is intended to be confidential --
sometimes by federal legislation.

  Typically, I become aware that some user has set up a client on a college
PC, because our bandwidth utilization (subsidized by your tax dollars) goes
up by 200 or 300 %.  This will usually mean at least a suspension of network
privileges for a while; repeat offences COULD lead to other sorts of
disciplinary action (although no user has pushed it that far yet).

  In most cases, the client *can* be configured so it doesn't interfere with
other use of the network, and so it won't show up on my radar, but most
users never catch on to that.

David Gillett

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