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On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, David Craig wrote:

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> Terry Lewis wrote:
>
> > 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?

All of ours are connected to the internet.  We specifically don't allow
MUDDs.  Ever.  And we kick people out of the labs when they insist on
doing them.  And revoke their ids.  etc.

IRCing is handled differently.  We post signs that say: "If you aren't
irc-ing to fulfill the requirements of a class, and someone else needs a
workstation, you will be asked to get up."  And for the most part it has
worked.  Of course, we pre-surveyed our students in the labs.  Almost 2
to 1 favored this approach, as opposed to open irc-ing, or no irc-ing.
Very few student complaints, but they were loud ones.  You can't please
everyone.

Ken Schriner                            kens@comp.uark.edu