Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!kitty!larry
From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Results of sci.aquaria vote
Summary: Interesting point about use of organization resources for Usenet
Message-ID: <3514@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 04:50:32 GMT
References: <21910@gryphon.COM> <3329@watale.waterloo.edu> <5805@unix.SRI.COM> <5971@unix.SRI.COM>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <5971@unix.SRI.COM>, maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
> Gary, all that is well and good, but is what is going on your
> hobby, or a benefit for the employees of the place you work?
> 
> If it's the former, how is what you're doing any different from
> stealing computer time?
> 
> If it's the latter, then the benefit has to be perceived as one by
> most employees, or maybe you SHOULDN'T be providing it at company expense.

	You bring up an interesting point; since you brought it up, perhaps
you could answer the following questions:

1.	Why does YOUR organization, SRI, utilize its resources in behalf
	of Usenet?

2.	In particular, why does your organization utilize its resources
	for the non-technical soc.* groups?

3.	To what level of management is your organization aware of the use
	of its resources for Usenet?  In particular, is this same level of
	management aware of non-technical use of resources, such as carrying
	soc.* groups?

4.	Would your management be concerned if they were aware of the amount
	of time you spend using its resources to read and post to Usenet?


	In fairness, I will answer the above questions for my organization:

1.	Because we feel that we derive extensive benefit from obtaining
	public domain software for the UNIX operating system, and obtain
	useful information about programming, UNIX system operation, and
	document preparation (we make extensive use of DWB and WWB).

2.	We utilize minimum resources for non-technical groups; we used to
	distribute full feeds for almost 4 years, but the garbage volume
	in the soc.*, talk.* and alt.* became excessive and we made some
	radical excisions about a year ago.  We do not distribute alt.* or
	talk.*, distribute only about 30% of rec.*, and distribute only
	soc.culture.jewish and soc.women.  We distribute soc.culture.jewish
	because we feed it to a non-profit organization, and we distribute
	soc.women based upon a specific request.

3.	At the highest level of management, President and CEO (to place this
	in perspective, my organization has about 110 employees in its
	various operations).  Yes.

4.	No.

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