fight about email fee in USTC
Shewen Liu (Shewen.Liu@JHU.EDU)
Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:43:06 -0400
I just got a news about USTC's email system. The adminstration want to
collect fee for using email (1Yuan for 1k, receiving) for all professors.
This made a lot of professors very angry. The head of 7th dept. is
contacting other departments' heads to protest to President Tang Honggao.
Their reasons are: 1. this will block the communcations between ustc and
outside, ( a medium size paper preprints will take more than 100k). 2.
the computer network is something fundamental to a modern university, just
like a library, so the adminstration is responisble to find money for it. 3.
It is a unfair practise, if you know the guy who is in charge of the
email, you do not need to pay. There are much more reasons than these. Do
you have any comments about this?
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Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | 410-516-5427(O)
The Johns Hopkins University | 410-516-5393(O)
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