> Hold on a minute. Are you doing public relations work for
> the computer department, or are you a journalist?

I'm not involved in either.

> For that matter, why ARE they lying about it? Are they
> worried about viruses on floppy disks? If that is the case,
> what about viruses spread by email? In addition, why do
> YOU need to use the A drive? You can email yourhomework
> to yourself and just store it on the Internet until you get to a
> computer where you can back it up on a floppy disk.

They are supposedly worried about viruses on the disks. However, like I said, there is nothing currently in place to stop students from using them. The school uses an extremely strict filtering program, and no page pertaining to email will load. The workarounds (such as going through a webpage translator like Babelfish) tend to cause too many errors. They've disallowed all methods to take work home. I've already brought this up to them, but they don't care. I've also asked why they keep saying the drives won't work when they clearly do, but the staff was adamant that the drives don't. After a few attempts (even SHOWING them that the drives work) I just gave up.

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