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In <BETSYS.92Oct8122503@ra.cs.umb.edu> betsys@cs.umb.edu writes:

>    There's another thing about these threads that is bothering me; the
>  implication that policies can't be made or modified on the fly, that
>  only written-in-stone policies are fair.

I agree, but you have to consider the limits of on-the-fly decisions,
however. I assume you would not justify the ad-hoc taking out of
entire services with this reason. (I suspect you wouldn't *do* that in
the first place.)

>...
>    Keeping rules simple has the consequence that interpretation of the
>  rules falls to the management more frequently. A rule of "no
>  interfering with other users" leaves room for interpretation;

It even leaves room for discussion between managers and users...

>...
>    But Yecccch! Who wants to live with that many rules? As it is, we've
>  asked three students in two years to change their .plan files, out of
>  about 500. Everyone is happy (at our site anyway; not everyone on the

And you have settled with them? You seem to have exactly the thing
many sites lack most: a good climate of the management-user
relationship.

>...
>    Meanwhile, I don't think we are confusing management with
>  "benevolent dictatorship."

Makes me happy to read that there are still people that reasonable. I
fully agree.

MfG,
        Olaf
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