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I have not actually seen it in print, but I think campus telecom administrators here at Florida State University are planning to (someday) charge so much per network outlet also. One can see this trend by observing their daily activities, and it appears that even the lowest level telecom/backbone folk have been to some kind of a "cadre school" that prepares them about dealing with us (future) victims. It would be kind of like the campus telephone service is now, a monthly "cash cow" for one sector (telecom) of the administration. But as some of us see it, our department brings money to the university by way of research grants, etc. and with a big chunck of that money (off the top) going to the university to pay for "infrastructure" expenses. So some of us think that this means we have already payed for network connectivity to the department. Thus charging us per network outlet would be the second time we will be paying for this service. Am I crazy, or are there other MET departments that see it this way also ... that charging per network outlet is unjust to those departments that bring significant external funding to the university? Yours, Bob Broedel FSU MET
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