At Oregon State, growth in network usage was doubling every 90 days, prompting Associate Provost Curt Pederson to ban Napster-related traffic.
Steen says that similar problems with Napster have not been encountered here at Harvard--where network usage doubles about every year.
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"We've been on the outlook for it for well over a month and haven't found any problems with it," Steen says.
Furthermore, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 says that there are no plans to ban Internet sites based on content.
"I should think that content filtering would be wholly incompatible with the principle of free inquiry and open access to information," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message.