Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!nsc!pyramid!infmx!robert From: robert@infmx.UUCP (Robert Coleman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl Message-ID: <4413@infmx.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 90 17:36:09 GMT References: <2824@bdt.UUCP> <1990May31.150018.5437@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <90154.203711SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> <1884@electro.UUCP> <30527@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: robert@infmx.UUCP (Robert Coleman) Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A. Lines: 50 In article <30527@cup.portal.com- Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes: -This is all pretty comical... - -I don't care about ST Report one way or the other.. when there's something in -it I want to read, I get it from one of several sources that have nothing -to do with UseNet... - -What's really been amusing though is the number of people here who are -willing to have Greg Lindahl do their thinking for them... - -Perhaps we should let him censor our daily newspapers too... that way he -could just snip out any articles he doesn't think are interesting.. think -of all the wasted time and reading we'd save by letting him do our -thinking for us... - -Come to think of it, there've been some really boring articles in STart -at times.. maybe we should let him scissor out those... and the ads too! - -I dunno, it sounds pretty scary when people start letting someone else -think for them... Right. Which is why I won't begin with you. Interestingly enough, what Greg Lindahl was doing is something any manager would appreciate: cut out the b******t, just give me the pertinent info. Of course, if you have an infinite amount of time, you can read everything. If you don't, you find a good employee to sift through all the data, and give you the stuff you really need. I don't know how good a job Greg was doing; the fact that he was *trying* to save people time (and, incidentally, obeying the law, something that I personally admire) leads me to suspect he would be a good employee...as opposed, of course, to someone who assumes you want every single detail, with or without regard to the legalities... I assure you, a good manager does *not* do all of his "thinking" for himself. He delegates. The essence of good management is to find people you can trust to do delegated tasks properly, and to report back what *you* need, and *only* what you need, to do your job. The fact that he's trying to edit isn't intrinsically bad (after all, *everything* we normally read has been editted by *someone*, even the vaunted STreport; what we have here is just a second level of editting); the more important question is "was he a good editor?". That, of course, will always be a matter of opinion, based on the goals of the recipient. Robert C. -- "Helen's the only one who knows what scruples are, and she won't tell us" John said. "Have we got scruples about it, Helen?" "Not a trace," Helen affirmed. -The Reefs of Earth, R.A.Lafferty