🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 19 Apr 1994, Sam Fairchild wrote:

> 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
> =========================
>

Sam,

the problem with using megabytes is that users are unlikely to understand
what they are being billed for -- after all, how many users know what an
EXCP is ?

Brian Risman brisman@io.org
Bank of Montreal
Toronto Ontario Canadad