[comm] Fyi: IP Addresses and Cost To the Library

[Patrick P Murphy]

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:04:36 -0600, James Robnett <jrobnett at nrao.edu> said:

>      Requiring they go through the proxy is about
> the only solution.

>      The idea of 'one IP address' for NRAO is rather
> meaningless.

>      Solving this is pretty much a no-op beyond
> sending an email to scistaff directing them at
> the proxy howto.    We could pretty it up a bit
> by having directions specific to this issue.

>       There's absolutely no reason for us to be
> spending that kind of money.

One idea would be to offload the process of purchase/IP-verification
from the Library to somewhere/someone else.  The only problem is there
isn't a "someone else" to my knowledge that has the time for it :-/

 - Pat