Individual students can store 20 megabytes each, but public conferences have no quotas. There's no quota there because there are valid reasons for some public conferences to have more than 20 megabytes of storage space. Director of Learning Technologies for ITD Susan Mistretta said the move complies with the network's usage policies. Students are responsible for knowing ITD policies. These are shared resources that are primarily for academic benefit.
Students have casual access to network space until it impedes academic progress.
Mistretta said no attack has been made specifically on MP3 files, only on files that typically occupy large amounts of space. According to Lipkin, the move is only a precautionary measure. People have been really cooperative, and a sizable amount of space was freed up. We freed about six gigabytes. A lot of people have files that they don't need.