Re:

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Ron:

So, in effect, any customer who decides that all connections will come from a 
single IP address and use a single userid will pay for only one user; but 
customers who choose to connect to your application directly through dumb 
terminals without telnetting first will pay for multiple users? That is, you've 
decided to charge by connection method rather than for usage.

Tom Liotta

On Thu, 02 August 2001, Ron@cpumms.com wrote:

> For PC's, I'm going to count each TCPIP address as a separate user. This
> means that mulitple sessions on the same terminal only get counted once,
> but the same user on multiple terminals gets counted multiple times. This
> is the ideal we were trying to reach with "dumb terminals".
> 
> For "dumb terminals" I'm going to look at the port and user profile to
> determine a user and allow 2 signons per port/user to count as a single
> user. This allows for dual sessions on each terminal to be counted as a
> single signon.  And if I make the number of signons allowed a variable
> stuck in a user space somewhere, then we can change the number for accounts
> that really need more.
> 
> This means that if a user signs onto the same port all seven times, I will
> count him only 4 times. He gets 3 freebies.  But if he really needs dual
> sessions to be productive, as soon as he starts another session on f those
> terminals I will start to pick up the count correctly. It's not perfect,
> but it seems to be a pretty fair compromise.


-- 
Tom Liotta
The PowerTech Group, Inc.
19426 68th Avenue South
Kent, WA 98032
Phone  253-872-7788
Fax  253-872-7904
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