Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: v11i020: Idle demon ... and philosophy / psychology thereof Message-ID: <2020@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 27 Aug 90 20:03:30 GMT References: <78@dlss2.UUCP> <1990Aug27.144219.24572@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 14 In article <1990Aug27.144219.24572@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes: > How about this idea: an autologout program should provide users a mechanism > to subvert it. Right so. > My guess is that almost all people keeping the line open > when they're not really doing anything are doing so by accident, and would > welcome being logged out. But even so, this can not always be detected. Some time ago I once was logged in to the system from home and forgot to log out. Normally I would have been disconnected within 60 minutes idle time. This did not happen due to line noise. -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland dik@cwi.nl