[Techtalk] cups

[Daniel Pittman]

Ricardo Dalceno <rddalceno at gmail.com> writes:

[I edited your comments at the end of the email, in the normal quotation
 style.  Hope you don't mind.]

> 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.

[...]

>> [1]  I assume that the issue is something like tractable to this, like
>>     printing everything in colour even when it isn't needed.
>
> Err... you know that CUPS support quotas, right?

I sure do.  The OP might.

> Why dont you use them ?

Well, see, those would be a technical solution to the problem.  I think
I made my views on technical solutions to social problems plain earlier
in the discussion.

Regards,
        Daniel