NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/os/vms/20799

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From: [e-mail] (Brent Sterner)
Subject: Making one image "free" of charging ?
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:42:47 GMT
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   Bit of a strategic puzzle.  Our management here is *contemplating*
making mail a "free" service to our users, in part to make it more
universal on our campus.  This would mean providing "free" accounts
(pretty easy) for "new" users, and also perhaps for existing users.
I'm wondering about doing it "better" for existing users.  Is there
any way to capture resource usage for the use of a specific image so
that account credits can be created?  Or is there any way that an
image can suspend the capture of accounting data until image rundown?
Or any other way to accomplish this (short of running a separate machine)?
   This is a thought exercise for now.  It is not clear that we will
go ahead with this, and if we do it may not be on a VMS platform.  But
if it is, how would *you* go about implementing such a scheme?
   Please post your comments; I'd rather not run a dozen email discussions
with cross-mailings about this.  Is it doable (easitl?) in VMS?  Might a
*nix os provide a better atmosphere to do it successfully?  Thanks for
your ideas.  b.
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Brent Sterner                AIX System Manager Apprentice
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