Re: Purposes

Greg,

You must remember that not everyone in the world is blessed with cheap
bandwidth. Back-billing doesn't work <right now> when one of the
techinical staff in my organization can't download drivers because someone
is "mp3-ing", "quake-ing" or "porn-ing". The combination of an
acceptable-use policy (basically "Our bandwidth is for business use
only"), aggressive filtering & monitoring (I'm using squidGuard and some
home-written perl scripts), and visible enforcement ("Hey, Mr Manager,
this is what your staff has been pulling off the Web over the last week")
is the only way I can find to maximise returns on this relatively
expensive resource.

Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew)

Neil

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Greg Maxwell wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Is it because:
>
> A) You are a bussines, and such things arn't approiate for bussines
> because it will get you sued (porn) or lower productivity:
>
> Solution: Do the same thing you'd do for keeping emploees from drinking on
> the job: Watch for 'signs', check them out, kick-em to the street.
>
> B) You are an ISP/School wanting to conserve bandwidth:
>
> Solution: What does it matter what the bandwidth usage is? Why should the
> user downloading a MP3 of his favorite internet band get limited while the
> users downloading Quake XXXVI shareware go free? Just account for the
> bandwidth of each user, and establish a back-billing system.
Received on Mon Feb 28 2000 - 23:37:14 MST