Preliminary discussion of the reemergence of The Lawrentian's Web
site and the staff's desire to permit advertising there by sponsors.
Some of the issues discussed include:
1) Our Web policy prohibits commercial activity on the Lawrence network,
no matter who owns the machine or the software it's running, and soliciting
advertising for the Lawrentian is arguably commercial activity.
2) Our services relationship with WiscNet *may* prohibit commercial activity.
(UPDATE: Robert checked and it seems there is no problem with subunits of
members and commercial activity. We're back to having to make our own decisions.)
3) There is a valid question about whether The Lawrentian, Lawrence's official
student newspaper, should be publishing to the Web in this manner
(student-owned machine; student-based domain name; site up and available
erratically; presumably a new domain name when the current student web manager
leaves Lawrence);
4) If we implement a firewall that puts residence halls within it, what
The Lawrentian has now set out to do would be much more difficult.
No decision was made, pending further investigation.