[27719] in Hotline Meeting
Re: User Complaining about being logged out [42000]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Apr 4 11:36:15 1995
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 95 08:15:15 -0400
To: mgood@MIT.EDU
Cc: accounts@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU, mhbraun@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Matt & Matt write:
> >It may be useful to inform the user that Athena is not for 'research' and
> >that if his thesis and phd research requires a lot of CPU time his
> >department should be paying for it.
>
> >In this way, his work is *less* important than the undergrads working on
> >class work.
>
> Yeah, we told him that in person, explained the primary use for Athena was
> for classes, how his department supported research, in fact, pretty much
> all of the arguments you'd use to explain this to someone.
It is perhaps useful to note that this person was logged into an SGI
in the student center for approximately 30 hours each day over spring
break. He accomplished this by not being there much of the time, and be
being logged into two machines much of the rest of the time.
At the time I did not feel like axing my political agenda on him, as I would
be overly harsh, he having made the same complaint to me in the SIPB office,
with the subtle implication that it was SIPB members logging him out, and
that there was something wrong or bizarre about this.
Perhaps he doesn't understand that people are *more* likely to log him out
if he says he is doing thesis work?
--jhawk
