Re: cut off after 30-45 minutes inactivity

[Jon Zeeff]

The very long sessions with idle time do seem like a major abuse of 
the dial-ins.  Timeouts (preferably with warnings), session limits, 
warning/status messages about lack of free lines, etc all seem like 
good ideas.  

It makes little sense to inconvenience users during the periods when 
the dial-ins are not busy.  So all of these things (along with 
policies as to what a dial-in can be used for and who can use it) 
should be conditional upon the dial-ins being busy (or close to it).  
Don't limit someone's session length at 4am when there are numerous 
free lines.  Give all users as much freedom as you can.

Better tools for already logged in users to detect the lack of free 
lines would help too.  All this might take some work, but it is better 
than the easy alternative of putting some major restrictions on the
dial-ins and then having idle lines 90% of the time.  There are
advantages to having dial-ins accessible to as many people as possible.

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