It is meant to be used with the Acceptable Use Policy for Computing and Information Technology Resources. In addition to this document, specific computers and labs may have their own rules. These should be posted clearly at the facility, or pointers included in the login message. Violations of those rules are considered violations of Acceptable Use, and may be reported using the procedure in this document. Both the policy and guidelines documents indicate that computer resources may not be used to interfere with other users.
Problems often occur when someone creates a program that does something lots of times.
For example, if you write a program that looks at the same web page thousands of times, this will normally cause a problem. Both the servers that handle web pages, and the network that gets the pages to you, are designed for normal human use. They are not designed to cope with programs that ask for the same thing many times. Networks can only handle a limited amount of traffic. Rutgers has a fairly high-speed connection to the Internet.