🚀 go-pugleaf

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Terry...Our computers are for curricular related use as a first priority and
professional use as a second.  This gives us the right to ask any student to
stop "playing". So far, it seems to work.

At 12:03 PM 1/22/96 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>We recently connected all PCs in our labs to the internet.  Students very
>quickly learned how to telnet to talkers and mudd games, thus tying up
>a majority of the pcs for hours at a time.  Needless to say, these
>students do not get up and give up the pc for someone in need of a
>computer to do their assignment on.  We set up a router so that it will
>not allow students to telnet to a site and give a port number of 1000-4000
>(I know there are others) which gets many of the mudds and talkers that
>are being used.  Well, now we seem to have quite a revolt from students on
>our hands!  I am interested in knowing how other institutions have dealt
>with similar situations and am interested in policies that have been
>implemented by others to try and alleviated such situations.  Another
>question too...... Do most institutions connect all pcs in all open labs
>to the internet or are just a few connected?
>
>Thanks for any ideas!
>
>Terry Lewis
>Sr. Applied Computer Analyst
>The University of Tennessee at Martin
>Martin, Tennessee  38238
>tlewis@utm.edu
>
Lynn White MLS
Computer Education Center
University of CT Health Center
white@nso.uchc.edu
or   hcladm15@uconnvm.uconn.edu