On Sun, Oct 21, 2012, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote about "Re: where to host web server": > I think it is not a question of resources, but of policies and firewall > ports. The Technion does not allow any SMTP servers that are not controlled > by the system team, for example.
Look, specific policies about port 25 (SMTP) serve to solve a very specific problem (spam bots) and the collateral damage is small (students and faculty can't experiment with writing new mail servers). This is quite a different thing than a broad policy that no student-accessible computer in the technion may allow incoming connections. That prevents development of all sort of Internet services, protocols, and so on. I don't think I need to give here a list of Internet protocols and servers which were developed in universities, and would not have had the universities were so unnecessarily-strict back then. The smallest example would be my very own "almost complete guide to the Israeli Internet", which some of you may remember as my index of Israeli web sites in the early 1990s, which I created as a student and I learned *a lot* from this experience. Today, I guess, the Technion would frown upon such enterprise. Twenty years ago, people thought it was great that students learn about the Internet and create new things... Anyway, the original poster demonstrated why this policy is nothing but stupid: Here he wants to teach students something, and can't because of Technion policies, so he needs to turn to external companies to do this. How does this make any educational sense? -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Oct 21 2012, 5 Heshvan 5773 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |This box was intentionally left blank. http://nadav.harel.org.il | _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
