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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (klund@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 24 21:40:07 1990

From: klund@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 21:39:45 EDT


>        During this busy time in the school year, users may attempt to
>reserve space in public clusters by leaving a screensaver locked on a
>workstation.  We remind you that the rules of use allow you to be away
>from your workstation for only 20 minutes before you must surrender your
>machine to another user.  People who lock up workstations may find their
>machine rebooted if they leave them for longer than this period of time.
>
>        We also ask you to refrain from playing games when other students
>may need workstations to complete school work.
>
>                                                Project Athena Operations
	
If you are going to tell people that they can reboot
locked workstations, you should also tell them how to do it.

I have seen more than one student reboot a VAXstation 2000 by
turning the front power switch off and on.

I know this is wrong...  most people don't...

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