[3092] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: sipbN quota increases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Jul 24 02:51:57 1998
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 24 Jul 1998 02:51:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of Fri, 24 Jul 1998 02:06:14 -0400
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> If people can agree on a better number, feel free to use it. My
>> rationale is that 200k is clearly too little, and I don't think 5000k
>> is a reasonable quota to do any sort of work in, and disk is cheap, so
>> we should be nice to our guests. I don't think quota should be less
>> than that of an Athena cell homedir, and whenever I get a guest
>> account somewhere, I certainly would like to have a reasonable amount
>> of disk space, so the Golden Rule applies.
>>
>> There is apparently a view espoused by Marc that I cannot do justice,
>> which is something about discouraging people from storing files in
>> sipbN accounts, and making case-by-case exceptions.
The sipbN accounts are not guest accounts. Guest accounts should have
reasonable quotas. The sipbn accounts are for visitors who need
temporary access to the net for a limited time. The accounts are not
intended for people "to do any sort of work in".
Marc
