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Re: Archives? Activity?

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From: Sam Fairchild
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 13:02
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My personal opinion is you should Keep It Seriously Simple.
The KISS Rule reigns when you have to come back and maintain what
you built.
Of course, the method you choose depends on your orgaization's
objectives:  income, regulation, behavior modification, etc.
The simplest way I know is to charge by the Megabyte.
Your objective will determine whether the chargeable Megabyte is
measured as static storage use (like a daily/weekly snapshot of your
DASD file population ) or  as throughput in Megabytes transferred
to/from DASD spaces or both.
If you are interested in behavior modification (of users), then you
really should make that chargeable unit visible to your customers,
so they have the opportunity to see what they did, measure it
themselves, and possibly un-do what they did.
Enjoy!
Sam Fairchild
Senior Customer Services Specialist
Academic Computing Services
The Ohio State University
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