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Our problem was more prosaic--students would be using e-mail and those
wishing to carry out their assignments could not access the machines.  We
decided to give access to the Internet to only 50% of our machines and posted
signs accordingly.


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> 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
>

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Michael Kessler                              (415) 338-1662
College of Humanities                        MKessler@ceres.sfsu.edu
San Francisco State University
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