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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:10:31 EST
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- From: James Jay Morgan <MORGANJ@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
- Subject: RE: CD Plus statistics
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- I'd certainly like to see some ability to ask questions of only a random
- sample of users. Right now the only way to limit the number of questions
- asked of users is to turn the questions on and off for selected periods,
- such as a week at a time.
- The timeout is not always "user-unfriendly", where you have limits on the
- amounts users can use. Since the CDPLUS system doesn't timeout during browse
- mode, we had one user blow his entire quota when a friend left it in browse
- mode overnight. I'd like to see a timeout that could be set for different
- amounts by user group or by function. That way I could set looser limits for
- those paying for their time (external users), since they are likely to
- close the session normally, and tighter limits on our free internal terminals
- where users usually walk away after they get their results without reseting
- the station.
- Jim Morgan
- morganj@indyvax.bitnet morganj@indyvax.iupui.edu
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