--- 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