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  • Subject: Re: Counting users
  • From: Ron@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:46:39 -0700



<<I applaud you trying to work with your customers.  Perhaps this is a
price
<<they pay for productivity?

Maybe thats the price they'd have to pay, but it wouldn't be fair.
Especially since I'm willing to conceed their argument but can't figure out
a way to count it correctly!

For dumb terminals, I think I'm going to look at port#/user/address and
divide by 2.  So, if a user signs on twice to the same port, I'll count it
once. But if there's three on the same port, I'll count it twice. This
gives every user two sessions. (If they need more than that they can go to
PC's and get as many as they want without a penalty).  And if a user signs
on to 7 terminals on the same port, I'll only count it as 4 signons. So
he'll get 3 freebies. But if he really needs dual sessions to be
productive, as soon as they sign on to another session on one of those, the
count will go up.

Not perfect, but perhaps "Good Enough?"  (I can just hear Jon Paris
shuddering at the phrase).

For PCs, I'll count them according to TCPIP address.

Many thanks to all who participated in the discussion.

Ron Hawkins

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