The campus network and the Internet are shared by many people. Sustained high traffic generated by an individual computer or an individual network access account can interfere with activities of others. When monitoring reveals excessive traffic by individual computers or individual network access accounts, system personnel will attempt to contact the owners of these computers or accounts and ask them to correct the problem. If problems cannot be resolved expeditiously, offending computers may be disconnected from the network or offending network access accounts may be suspended. Placing an excessive load on central computers is prohibited.
Central computers are also a shared resource.
When monitoring reveals that a program is placing an excessive load on a central computer, the offending program will be terminated. Usually special arrangements may be made for running programs that legitimately require large amounts of computer time. Disguising or falsifying message sources is prohibited. Persons who attempt to mislead, defraud or harass others by disguising or falsifying sources of electronic mail or other signed messages may have their network access privileges revoked. Misuse of IP numbers in prohibited.