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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 23:00:18 GMT
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- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@CURIA.UCC.IE>
- Subject: Re: Off Campus Access Policies
- Comments: To: CWIS-L@WUVMD.Wustl.EDU
- In-Reply-To: <9209110450.AA28920@curia.ucc.ie>; from "Steve Cook" at Sep 10,
- 92 8:47 pm
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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.
-
- Snap.
-
- > 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?
-
- Here in Cork we have (still) relatively few modem users for off-campus
- use (I'm on one now). It will doubtless grow, but I have no way of
- estimating growth, so our response will be 'on demand'. Right now it's
- for free, 2400,n,8,1 only: four lines.
-
- > 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?
-
- Actually this was non-obvious to me: a remote user is a remote user is a
- remote user: we don't discriminate between student and faculty access (we
- *do* discriminate in the handing out of IDs---not my decision---in that
- it's hard for a student to get an ID , the ratioanle being that we don't
- have enough disk space or processor time, plus a residual feeling from
- some staff that "students don't need/oughn't to want access" and that all
- they would do would be clog the net with junk mail: IMHO a false view.)
-
- ///Peter
-