Re: dial in lines being held for "days"

[Jeff.Ogden]

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Date:         Mon, 24 Aug 92 08:51:18 EDT
From:         Mark Strandskov <34HLEFG@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Organization: Central Michigan University
Subject:      Re: dial in lines being held for "days"
To:           Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu
Message-Id:   <920824.085118.EDT.34HLEFG@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  Your message of Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:48:16 EDT
 
On Fri, 21 Aug 92 17:48:16 EDT you said:
>>  4. If people are using PPP and authorized, can't you track them
>>     down and find out what they are doing which requires so much
>>     dial in time and if it is that important, convince them to get a
>>     direct line?  If it is against a proposed policy limiting dial in
>>     access time, tell them they are violating that policy.
>
>Tracking people down takes people time and people time is in short
>supply and also expensive.  We'd rather have our people working
>with K-12 students, teaching seminars at our members and affiliates
>and similar activities rather than tracking down people who are
>using the dial-in lines for long periods of time.
 
I agree that tracking down people takes time but if they are authorized,
you know who they are and if you can't reach them by phone, put a hold
on their authorization account.  I definitely agree that teaching
seminars, working with K-12, etc. is certainly time much better spent.
What about just posting a warning that dial in resources on that particular
PCP/SCP are being abused and if it isn't stopped, further action will be
taken.  It may be enough to inform the abuser(s) that they are affecting
others wishing to use the resources without having to spend alot of
time tracking them down.
 
>An alternative, perhaps the only alternative that will really work
>is for the Merit member schools to understand how fast the demand
>for dial-in lines is increasing and to agree to spend the money
>to add enough 9600 bps and above lines to meet this demand. Even
>if we implement timeouts of some sort we'll almost certainly need
>to add lots more modems. The cost of the 9600 bps modems is
>dropping and more and more people are buying.
>
>A question for each school is do you think you'll be able to
>move in this direction?  How fast?
 
I would love to see us move in that direction but I am not the one who
makes the decisions regarding when we will be spending money on purchasing
9600 baud modems for dial in.  I do understand that as soon as we get
some, they will probably be fully utilized.  I know several people
including myself who are holding off purchasing a 9600 baud modem until
we get 9600 dial in off campus service.  I suppose one of the things
which might have been prolonging this decision is that we already have
19.2K dial in on campus using the Datapath units.  There probably will
be many who will drop the monthly costs of the Datapaths in favor of
using 9600 baud modem on their existing phone lines in their office.
We will have to wait and see.  I do know that upgrading the current
dial in facilities to 9600 baud is on the list of things to deal with
but I don't know exactly when it will happen.
 
Mark...
 
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