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                                        Date:     26-Sep-1995 01:16pm EST
                                        From:     Thomas Langhorne
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TO:  Remote RSCS/NJE Network User         ( _JNET%HISTARCH@ASUACAD )
 
 
Subject: More on info requests
 
 
 
         I see that Jim Murphy has put in a very pertinent comment
    regarding the frustrations people feel over global "info requests".  I
    tried to express the same thought yesterday, but perhaps was too wordy
    in my posting.  There is a difference b/w the 2 types of requests.
    Right now, in circles where discussions of academic honesty and
    scholarly integrity occur, there is great concern about students simply
    getting papers off the internet, just the same way they used to
    purchase them 10 yrs ago.  In effect, you have a computer literate
    student who contrives to have a term paper researched or written by
    others on the net who, in good faith, believes they are helping
    someone, who doesn't have adequate local resources, expand his/her
    education/knowledge.   I would venture to guess that in most cases
    where this happens, the person supplying the info is completely in the
    dark about the uses to which the recipient plans to put it.
 
         Well, I don't want to be accused of producing a diatribe, so I'll
    stop here.
 
 
                                Tom Langhorne
 
 
 
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