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From: wex@milano.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Computer Billing
Message-ID: <1083@milano.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 11:02:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 11:02:50 1986
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Summary: games are not always costly

In article <5245@kestrel.ARPA>, ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin) writes:
> ... Needless to say, we had the games turned off...

I was at a site where games (particularly rogue) were thought to be
consuming a large share of resources.  Our sysop did some checking, wrote
some monitoring programs, etc.  In a month, he was able to report that
monitoring and recording game usage cost about 10x what the games themselves
cost.  Needless to say, the users were happy, and the administrators (who
wanted to restrict/eliminate the games) were not at all pleased.

The moral is: look before you shoot.  Turning off games seems an easy solution,
but it may not be the cause of the problem you're trying to solve!

-- 
Alan Wexelblat
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"No wife, no horse, no mustache."