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Originally posted by Neato
arch that was probably me 
I understand that you don't support this, but here my opinion:
We pay the school to live in this dorm. Living here means that we spend most of our time here, including much of our recreational time. I can understand limiting or restricting the use of P2P programs, and have no quarrel with that; hell, I support them in that area. But students need to have ways to spend their recreational time alone, after all, "idle hands are the devils... whatever". A bunch of bored students rarely results in a bunch of studying students. Rather, it results in noisy, anoying, messy, inconciderate students.
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Naw, it was me my freshman year when we still had unblocked access for free.
I do agree that blocking AIM is draconian in implamentation, and am a little suspicious as to if it being done or simply is a problem with the orgional posters AIM setup. I hope he confirms this on other computers before complaining.
That being said, a school exists for it's students but also for self preservation. it's a two way street. No students, No school but also no school, no students.
I think that if this is being blocked, a student colation representing a majority based on signatures or some other quantifiable method should come to the schoools IT board to discuss the issue.
A ban on AIM file transfers while allowing AIM text (yup it's possible to implament) seems a reasonable compramise that still saves on bandwidth and stops file trading.
Just as long as they disable that damn AIM .wav noise
