This link reviews quite a remarkable amount of effort being to close public access to simple notepad and wordpad programs in US Government Depositoriescolleges, and Universities typically used by those doing scholastic research.

Private Club? The staff emailed me about 5-21-2003 and suggested their massive facility could not be bothered to private minor word capabilities to visiting scholars.

San Antonio Losses
For Academic Research

The nice folks in San Antonio, Texas apparently eliminated programs such as text pad and word pad which might be used by persons doing scholastic research from such locations as the University of Texas; San Antonio College; Public Library and ask visitors to use Microsoft Word and all the risks that entails. It can only be assumed that visiting scholars will choose to do their research in other communities.

Peckerwood U? The staff took out word processing capabilities for the public in 1997 to elminate to prevent even nonfull time students using their library facilities.

Club Med? The staff took out word processing capabilities for the public before 2000 to elminate the problem of the non students using their facilities.

College Children The staff took out word processing capabilities for the public in 1997 apparently because of problems where students frequently were hacking the main library computer systems as the staff explained by bringing in boot discs.

No Visitors No Problem A nasty problem elminated by simply not letting persons without University ID into the main Library building-Bravo.

No Visitors No Problem A nasty problem elminated by simply not letting persons without University ID into the main Library building-Bravo. Good ideas can be used by anyone.

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