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- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!HUB.UCSB.EDU!COOK
- Message-ID: <9209110347.AA03303@bluemoon>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.cwis-l
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:47:51 PDT
- Sender: "Campus-Wide Information Systems" <CWIS-L@WUVMD.BITNET>
- From: Steve Cook <cook%bluemoon@HUB.UCSB.EDU>
- Subject: Off Campus Access Policies
- Comments: To: cwis-l@wuvmd.wustl.edu
- Comments: cc: cook@bluemoon.ucsb.edu
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- Our campus has an historic non-official policy of providing modem
- access to the campus network at no direct cost to the users. However,
- with the increasing demand for off campus access to the campus, the
- increasing user base is quickly realizing that there is a shortage
- of modem ports in which to connect.
-
- Why is being posted to the cwis-l list? Well, it seems that we've
- been sucessful in increasing demand by supporting widespread use
- of e-mail and increasing the participation in information on-line
- thru gopher.
-
- I would be interested in hearing how other campuses deal with
- acccess to their network from faculty and staff at home. Is this
- a feature that's available for free or at cost? Is there a way
- to size the number of modem ports available? Are there ways of
- determining demand for information servers from off-campus? How
- many modems do other campuses have for general access? Do other
- campuses require dedicated phone trunks to the campus for
- phone lines, and if so what's the ration?
-
- Any light that you can shed on this would be helpful. If the
- response is revealing, I'll post results to the list.
-
- Thanks
- Steve Cook
- cook@bluemoon.ucsb.edu
- UC Santa Barbara
-
- p.s. I left off the obvious questions regarding student access: do
- you allow off campus access to the campus by students? If so, what
- are the numbers/ratios? If students are treated differently than
- faculty/staff/administrators - what is the rationale?
-