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 Carl> == Carl M. Kadie <kadie@eff.org> 

 Wes> "Any restrictions placed on your computing access must be 
 Wes> directly related to the charges filed against you.  Any
 Wes> restrictions must be approved by the Director of Engineering
 Wes> Computing prior to their initiation."

 Carl> Let me make up a scenario. A user apperently sends a million lines of
 Carl> "Wow! I sure can waste paper" to the laser printer." This wastes about
 Carl> 2000 pages of paper and $25 dollars worth of toner.

 Carl> You bring him/her up on charges. (At the very least he or she should
 Carl> have to pay for the waste and get a formal warning from the school.)

 Carl> The question is, should you also prohibit the user from using the
 Carl> printer while the case is pending? The policy as written seems to say
 Carl> yes. But to me this seems that punishment before establishing guilt
 Carl> (unless you really think the user is stupid enough to do it again
 Carl> while awaiting a University hearing.)

I would say that a restriction like "can only print 100 pages a week"
would be a reasonable reaction to that sort of abuse, without
completely prohibiting the user from using the printer(s).  Restrictions
are not necessarily all-or-nothing affairs.

I, personally, find the policy Wes is creating to be fair to both the
users and the system administration/staff: a tough compromise under the
circumstances of a university community.  (I have the enviable situation
of having a small, private user base rather than a large and continually
changing set of users; this allows informal problem-solving to go much
farther than it might in a larger community.  Of course, the fact that
it's hard to get face-to-face meetings with users who are in different
time zones can also hinder the process... ;-)

(And, of course, I've never had problems with Carl printing too much on
our printers; I don't think he's ever printed *anything* on our
printers, and he's certainly never been by to pick it up... ;-)

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