Since what I have said is so ridiculous, why don't you take a crack at answering the original question? Then we can all take pot shots at what you say, pointing out that the example you used, based on a real system, is absolutely _____ [fill in the blank].
First of all these comments weren't intended as a personal attack, and I never indicated that YOU were ridiculous, but rather than the proposed mechanism for costing CPU seconds was.
The primary reason they are ridiculous is that the question that you have posted cannot be answered in a simple list-server and to suggest otherwise truly is ridiculous.
The original question is wrong at so many levels, especially if one thinks that someone might actually be contemplating an I/T accounting/chargeback system based on an answer from this list.
This process is far too complex and requires far too many levels of management/accounting/technical involvement which is precisely why so many of these systems are simply ridiculous.
Adam
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