Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sci34hub!gary
From: gary@sci34hub.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Message-ID: <410@sci34hub.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 03:16:05 GMT
References: <21910@gryphon.COM> <3329@watale.waterloo.edu> <5805@unix.SRI.COM>
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In article <5805@unix.SRI.COM>, maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
= In article <2903@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer) writes:
[ .... ]
= >to let only system administrators vote -- after all, they represent the
= >ones paying the bills for this mess.
= 
=  Um, I'm willing to bet that many SAs do not have a line in their
= job descriptions that specifically delegates to them the authority
= to decide which USENET groups to carry.
= 
= Valerie Maslak

I'm willing to bet that many SAs do not have anything in their job
description that specifically authorizes them to carry ANY groups,
and if the upper management levels found out just how much time and
resources are expended to do so, some of us would receive rather 
clear instructions about what { company school government } resources
are for. A lot of us are mixing usenet traffic with normal mail and
transfer traffic sort of on the sly. Above me are five levels of 
management, to the chairman of the board. I KNOW the top three 
levels haven't the slightest idea that I'm pulling down a nearly
complete news feed nightly. My best defenses are making the calls
at night, and doing most of the admin stuff at night. Otherwise,
I'd be in some hot water. I'd hope I could show some way I was
minimizing the expense....


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    Gary Heston     { uunet!sci34hub!gary  }    System Mismanager
   SCI Technology, Inc.  OEM Products Department  (i.e., computers)
      Hestons' First Law: I qualify virtually everything I say.