--- Forwarded Message from Olaf Bohlke <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:02:33 +0000
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: Olaf Bohlke <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5563 Napster abuses
>Cc: [log in to unmask]
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

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Dear Bob,
It is possible that your computer center folks are correct because
Napster's software has been jamming the networks of many universities for
some time, and some universities have blocked access to Napster (read
second article 2-27).  It is true that this creates a problem for networks
which already run at near capacity during normal use.  However, it appears
that Napster is now taking action (read first article 3-23) to limit its
traffice for campuses as a reaction to the ban.

The following articles may give you some useful information: 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/000323-000018.html
TITLE: Napster tweaks MP3 finder to un-jam University LANs 3-23-00

http://abcnews.go.com/onair/DailyNews/wkn_napster_000227.html
TITLE: The Sound of Net Congestion 2-27-00


Regards,

Olaf Böhlke

Hitchcock Language Resource Center
Creighton University
http://www.creighton.edu/langlab






At 10:46 AM 3/23/00 EST, you wrote:
>--- Forwarded Message from Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> ---
>
>>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:27:20 -0600 (CST)
>>From: Bob Peckham <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Napster abuses (TBob)
>
>We have been having some big problems with our main server
>http://www.utm.edu , which is often barely, sometimes not at all
>accessible from off campus, via other ISPs on even directly on an ethernet
>connestion.  Our access is split.  We have a T1 Ed.Net  to the labs and
>other stricly educational computers (includung our Globe-Gate server and
>our FMC server.  Then, the main server and the students in the dorms and
>student appartments (we are 40% residential) are on a Qwest T1.
>
>The computer center folks claim that our access problems are being created
>by student abuse in downloading MP3 files and digitized movies using
>Napster and iMesh programs.  If you don't close these down completely
>after use, I understand that they make your computer a kind of conveyor or
>assistant to their servers in the music and movie download business.  This
>clogs the pipe.  Our Globe-Gate and FMC servers are more accessible
>because they are on the Ed.Net pipe.  If this is all true, what should be
>done to remedy the situation...or should we just nuke the place and start
>over?
>
>TBob
>
>Bob Peckham
>Director, The Globe-Gate Project
>Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages
>Univ. of Tennessee-Martin
>Martin, TN  38238  USA
>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
>CV: http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/tbobcv.html
>
>