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In article <CJ7pI...@news.iastate.edu> mar...@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn) writes:
>The effect of the current game on a networked lab, particulary if you
>get more than one game-set going at once, can be substantial.  Many of
>our lab machines need to be slightly reconfigured to be doom-friendly
>and that has worked to moderate playing in the public labs, but it'd be
>naive to rely on this alone.  We'll rely on our standing policy of
>work-before-play (gamers can be asked to leave, but can use otherwise
>idle stations) and we'll hope for a better net-behaved version of the
>game.  The work-before-play concept extends to prohibit game sessions if
>they have a negative impact on the work activities at other stations.
>We have a fairly long history of not banning activities, but rather
>encouraging good computer/network citizenship.
>Martin R. Calsyn                                   mar...@iastate.edu

Martin,
  Am I reading this right?  You let students bring their own software into 
your computer lab?  I run a computer lab for Sacramento City College (a 
two-year school) and we do not allow ANY software on our machines that the lab 
does not own (Public Domain or otherwise), and we're not even networked 
(otherwise I'd have crashed the network long ago playing Net Doom :) )!  How 
do you protect against viruses and destruction of installed software (I've got 
Virus scanners going, and enough DOS tricks and custom software protections to 
choke a horse, and I still spend enormous amounts of time rebuilding my 
systems).

(I'm using netcom for Net access because my school has not yet put out the 
money to get hooked up (and I'm not calling long-distance to get to the 
four-year that is acting as my school's host).)

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