[Techtalk] cups

[Ricardo Dalceno]

Err... you know that CUPS support quotas, right ?
Why dont you use them ?


Ricardo "j0k3r" Dalceno


2009/5/13 Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>

> Wim De Smet <kromagg at gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> [...]
> >> Can't you address this at a social level, by billing the user for their
> >> excess use, or posting information so it is apparent to *everyone* that
> >> the user is abusing the service?
> >>
> >> If you do that, generally speaking, people will suddenly regulate their
> >> own behaviour and do the right thing because the cost — either cash, or
> >> in social disapproval — is too high for the benefit they receive.
> >
> > I agree that a social solution is probably best here (though you
> > always have the occasional user who really does keep getting confused
> > about what printer is the colour printer). A public shaming seems a
> > bit drastic though, a bit like going nuclear on an invading mosquito:
> > you're liable to miss the mark completely and end up with lots of
> > collateral damage. I'd advocate a more subtle approach first.
>
> Ah.  What was apparent to me, because I wrote that, but wasn't stated
> was my assumption about *how* the "posting information" part would be
> done; that was a mistake on my part.
>
> My assumption is that the information would be made available in a
> non-judgemental fashion, without explicitly targeting anyone by name.
>
> An example would be a "10 highest users of colour printing with page
> count" list, posted every week or month, showing who used the printer
> the most.[1]
>
> That gives the information, and more importantly the visibility of the
> information, that allows users to regulate their own behaviour.
>
>
> Displaying a notice reading "Daniel has printed too much colour stuff
> and should be hung from a tree" is probably not going to productively
> motivate someone.
>
>
> Thank you for pointing that out my lack of clarity, Wim.
>
> Regards,
>        Daniel
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  I assume that the issue is something like tractable to this, like
>     printing everything in colour even when it isn't needed.
>
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