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- From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
- Subject: Re: Making one image "free" of charging ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.212419.26378@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- Organization: TI/DSEG VAX Support
- References: <1993Jan12.134247.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:24:19 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan12.134247.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
- > 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.
-
- The easiest, and most painful way, would be to install the MAIL image with
- accounting enabled. You could then go back and "credit" each account for the
- time burned by mail.
-
- We did the reverse of this, chargeing every user of our SNAgateway, since we
- were in turn charged by our mainframe group. Since then, we quit chargebacks,
- moved all the money functions to a VP transfer level and everybody is happier
- (even the guy who writes the check, since he hears less bitching!)
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