ron@men1.UUCP (Ron Flax) (01/26/85)
David Levadie writes... > the LAST thing I would want to see is ANY form of "discretion" about > what ANYBODY can say ANYWHERE, given to the sniveling, self-centered > little nerds who seem to characterize the Unix-system-administrator crowd... > Of course, these people would just LOVE to delegate themselves the authority > to open your mail. In fact, as has been demonstrated, they would even > like to be able to call your "supervisor" if something you write happens > to "offend" them... Rather than dog turds in their desks, actually, I > would suggest, perhaps, a poisonous snake? Pal I dunno how your system is run??? BUT on my system (and many others I frequent), the system adminitrator is extremely fair and I don't believe you can simply stereotype the "Unix-system-administrator" as a group of self-centered individuals, after all where do you suppose Usenet came from anyways? Sorry guy this one just doesn't hold water... Ron@men1 (Ron Flax) MTACCS Engineering Network ..!{seismo,umcp-cs}!{prometh,cal-unix}!men1!ron
yee@ucbvax.ARPA (Peter E. Yee) (01/29/85)
In article <347@men1.UUCP> ron@men1.UUCP (Ron Flax) writes: >David Levadie writes... > >> the LAST thing I would want to see is ANY form of "discretion" about >> what ANYBODY can say ANYWHERE, given to the sniveling, self-centered >> little nerds who seem to characterize the Unix-system-administrator crowd... >> Of course, these people would just LOVE to delegate themselves the authority >> to open your mail. In fact, as has been demonstrated, they would even >> like to be able to call your "supervisor" if something you write happens >> to "offend" them... Rather than dog turds in their desks, actually, I >> would suggest, perhaps, a poisonous snake? > >Pal I dunno how your system is run??? BUT on my system (and many others I >frequent), the system adminitrator is extremely fair and I don't believe >you can simply stereotype the "Unix-system-administrator" as a group of >self-centered individuals, after all where do you suppose Usenet came >from anyways? > >Sorry guy this one just doesn't hold water... I don't think that Mr. Levadie is even trying to hold water with his flame. Isn't this the same gentleman (a misnomer, if ever I saw one) who advocated posting sources requests to net.sources. I guess he is just one of those discontented individuals who has to attempt at ruining the network for every- one else. Ignore him. It works best. I agree with Mr. Flax: our machine has a very fair administrator, one who does not think that his time is best spent lording over the users. Where Mr. Levadie got his ideas about system adminstrators, I will never know. Is Tek that bad? :-) From your local Net Nazi (Mr. Levadie thinks so!), -Peter Yee ..ucbvax!yee yee@Berkeley.ARPA