Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ulysses!andys From: andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Andy Sherman) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Reading others files (Was: Ten Commandments of Personal Computing) Message-ID: <11918@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 21 Jul 89 17:14:46 GMT References: <12702@well.UUCP> <26368@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <5020@ficc.uu.net> <26375@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Andy Sherman) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Murray Hill, NJ Lines: 32 In-reply-to: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) In article <26375@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@eris (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes: >In article <5020@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >< ~user/resume Certainly not (does indicate a dim-bulb, though). > >And this brings us to the root of the problem. Doing an ls on >someone's home directory is like looking at the titles on all the >documents on their desk, as well as the labels on some of their file >folders. Most people would consider the latter an immoral act. Because >knowing that someone has a resume (theirs? Someone elses?) on top of >their desk is potentially harmfull. Having it in a directory doesn't >change that harm. And it's not much different from knowing that they >are reading various .jobs groups. Actually, resumes are needed for more than finding jobs. I almost always have one on-line (in a 600 directory). Most grant applications require resumes for the primary personnel. I have worked on bids where resumes of project personnel were included. That someone is keeping their resume current is not an a priori sign that a job search is underway. In the same 600 directory I work on the annual write-up I have to do on myself as part of our performance appraisal process. I do it online so that I don't have to write it out longhand. It is safe from the prying eyes of all but my fellow super-users. I think the permissions on the directory are enough to tell them to stay the hell out. I usually make company sensitive (but non-personal) stuff readable by group staff. And no, I don't consider myself a dim-bulb. -- Andy Sherman/AT&T Bell Laboratories/Murray Hill, NJ *NEW ADDRESS* AUDIBLE: (201) 582-5928 *NEW PHONE* READABLE: andys@ulysses.ATT.COM or att!ulysses!andys *NEW EMAIL* The views and opinions are my own. Who else would want them? *OLD DISCLAIMER*