In an earlier post, Steve suggested that Lowden Hall get its act
together because of the growth of homepages on campus. The issue cannot
be ignored by silence, arrogance, or invisible policy making. I'm not
sure how many home pages exist on campus, but perhaps we can get a rough
count.
On sun.soci, we have 45 public_html/homepage.html files. I don't know
how many are active, because they aren't individually monitored.
Here is a partial log for the last week:
--- start log ---
Requests last 7 days: 14676
Total unique hosts: 5745
Total number of bytes requested: 452514040
Average requests/hour: 102.6, requests/day: 2463.2
Average bytes/hour: 2382140, bytes/day: 57171372
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The following are the most active homepage user stats (site accesses) on
sun.soci from Oct 1 through Thu Oct 12 15:05:00 CDT 1995.
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7794 Total files accessed from Cu Digest (cudigest)
--- end log ---
I've included the most active site for the past seven days. An additional
eight I'd consider active (they receive "hits" ranging from every 10 minutes
to once an hour). The remainder are ligthly used, inactive, or
under construction.
What's significant is that the usage is steadily increasing each week.
We've had no problems. Yet. My sense from other sites is that the greatest
problems occur not from an incident itself, but rather from complications
arising from managing the incident.
Although I am committed to allowing flexible use of homepages that
fall within academic freedom and First Amendment protections, I also
recognize my responsibility to the University and local community.
But, it's unclear what these responsibilities are, and Lowden Hall
has steadfastly refused to recognize the underlying issues or even enter
into discussions.
I would like to see some responsible committee begin to devise standard
policy guidelines that balance the need to protect freedom of expression
with our broader responsibilities.
Any suggestions?
jt