Chat: another view -Reply

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Another reply, Belk Library does not have a policy on chat but there is a
University Computer Policy that addresses the use of chat.  It does not forbid
chat in general but does address "idle chat".  Now theres a sticky wicket,
where is the idle line drawn and by whom?  Below is the excerpt from the
Computer Usage Policy at
http://www2.acs.appstate.edu/computer.htm

D. Users may neither prevent others from accessing the system nor unreasonably
slow down the system by deliberately running wasteful jobs, playing games,
engaging in non-productive or idle chatting, or sending mass mailings or chain
letters.


Thomas

Wilfred Drew wrote:

> No one is discounting the value of chat as a learning tool.  The real
> question is what is the prefered use of a scarce resource (microcomputers
> in the library connected to the Internet) on one part of a campus as
> cpmpared to another part.  This is not a case where one answer fits all
> situations.  We simply do not have enough machines to allow chat to go on.
> It is entirely a judgement call that each library must make.  There is no
> right or wrong involved here.
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