v11i020: Idle demon ... and philosophy / psychology thereof

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <1990Aug27.144219.24572 at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> shenkin at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
 > How about this idea:  an autologout program should provide users a mechanism
 > to subvert it.
Right so.
 >                 My guess is that almost all people keeping the line open
 > when they're not really doing anything are doing so by accident, and would
 > welcome being logged out.
But even so, this can not always be detected.  Some time ago I once was
logged in to the system from home and forgot to log out.  Normally I would
have been disconnected within 60 minutes idle time.  This did not happen due
to line noise.
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik at cwi.nl