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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
>
If you set out your policies clearly, in writing, so all students know what
they are, you can minimize this.  We established top priority as school
assignments and went down from there.  The students know if they are
"mudding" or even just reading email, they could be asked to leave if the
lab is full and someone has school work to do.

If they refues to leave and the lab manager is around, the the manager ask
them to quit.  If they still refuse, the netowrk connection for the machine
is termianted and security is called to escort them out.  However, this has
never happened.  They may grumble, but they realize that tomorrow it could
be them needing the machine and someone else is "mudding".

All machines have conntections to the internet.


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