Re: gamer clubs

[Dexter Caldwell <dexter.caldwell () FURMAN EDU>]

If it's not too much effort or maintenance, I say let them play.  A few years ago, I considered hosting a few LAN 
parties as special events for students who wanted to do it, but they found ways to do it themselves and luckily we 
didn't get many requests.  I'd try to accommodate them if I had equipment and other resources.  Probably wouldn't offer 
much in the way of support.  Just the raw config they need to see each other as peers in a location.  I say let them 
have fun if you can manage expectations and requests.  That small amount of goodwill will probably do more good than 
harm.  Would depend on how often they meet and whether they'd need me to keep changing configurations etc to suit them 
though.  That would be a non-starter.  But if there's a suitable static location, I'd consider it.

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Iglesias
Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 5:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] gamer clubs

On 04/05/2016 01:55 PM, Sprague, Randy wrote:
> Hello, I have been requested to provide connectivity for a gamer club 
> using the college's network and internet connection. What are others 
> doing? Am I over reacting by not allowing such activity?

We've had several requests like that, usually when a gamer club is having a get-together in our student center.  We set 
up a network for them that only has access to off-campus hosts and our campus VPN in case any of our students want to 
connect to an on-campus host.  We haven't had any issues so far.


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