🚀 go-pugleaf

Paul Mossman (mossman@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
:   For new readers on "dal.general", this thread was initiated by the 
: information at http://www.ug.cs.dal.ca/cgi-bin/mossman/is-irc

:    Banning IRC (or any other internet resource) would be archaic, 
: illogical, and next to impossible at best.  What would be a preferable 
: solution is for Dalhousie's students, staff, and faculty to use 
: Dalhousie's valuable computer resources for academic related work.  
: Note: everyone who has an IS account agreed to this concept 
: (outlined in Dalhousie's policy on Responsible Computing) when they 
: signed the IS application form.  

	I agree that banning anythign is nto the answer.  However,
I wonder why UCIS has made no attempt to even request users follow
the policy they agreed to.  While it is probably impossible for anyone
at UCIS to cosntantly monitor for such abuses - there is nothing stopping
them from running a monitoring - and warning users who appear to be
on IRC for thier entire two hours (or more sometimes) of dialup time.
I refuse to believe that 2hours straight of IRC has ANY academic value.
I will concede that it can be used for quick answers to problems. 

	As it is UCIS refuses to even post a formal request asking
users to follow this policy.  I made a request last term  and was
told it "would be passed along to the system manager".  That was the
last I heard. 


: : Hopefully the new ug dialin lines coming online will help people 
: : trying to get on for academic work.

:    No doubt they will.  Unfortunately, it had to come to this.


	Don't fool yourself people... there will be only 8 of them.
Not only that to use them users will not be allowed to use term/slirp
etc so our use will be extremely restricted.  (I actually use term,
since it is the only way I can get multiple windows up remotely).  This
restriction is necessary so that we can monitor what people are doing
on our measley 8 lines.  Rest assured, abuse of these lines will
not be tolerated.  Still there are only 8 of them.  

: Paul Mossman
: mossman@ug.cs.dal.ca


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