[H-GEN] Expo Uni, more details.

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 14 May 1997, Andrae Muys wrote:

> 1/ We will be provided an IP on their local subnet.  This should provide
> us with almost unfirewalled access to the net.

Sounds good for demoing things like netrek.  We need a masq.

> 3/ The CS HOD has requested that we be sensitive of the Universities image
> when running programs/games/accessing data.  I do not consider this
> unreasonable, after all this is Expo Uni, and Expo Uni is a PR exercise.
> In a PR exercise you do your best to avoid offending anybody.  Please
> contact me if you have any problem with this.

Yep,we will be good, won't we guys? :-)

> 4/ The CS dept' has also asked that we avoid any large downloads while
> connected to their network.  They are being charged for what we download
> there, and were understandably concerned.  I suspect they weren't aware
> that we normally have similar access during meetings.  So if you could
> restrain the urge to mirror sunsite during the Expo it would be
> appreciated. :)

Any large downloads can wait until 3pm, where they can be done from
Hawken-3 :-)

> 5/ They also warned me that we will be on the CS insecure network.  So
> they wanted to make sure we were aware that we will not get any benifit
> from any security measures on the CS side of the fence.

I suspect the HUMBUG boxen will by and large be pretty well protected, but
it is worth considering.  Anyone bringing a box, but not running tcp
wrappers can have them setup before going online if they want.
Cheers,
	-Robert

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