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Stephen Downes

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It's the perfect solution. Everyone is happy except the students. Just kidding. But seriously, you have to be sympathetic with network administrators at Buffalo State College where student file transfers (which continue unabated despite the recording industry's 'success' in shutting down file trading networks such as Napster) are swamping the university network, making it impossible to conduct normal college business. Administrators are "limiting the capacity on the circuits that parcel data packets to residence halls during the day, when faculty and staff are on campus. The idea is to give administrators enough network capacity to keep the campus running." CRLFCRLF

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