Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: barrey@ka (Barrey Jewall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Company "Inside Humor" Message-ID: <12617@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Sep 90 07:33:42 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Barrey Jewall Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, Califonia Lines: 35 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 680, Message 1 of 10 In article <12449@accuvax.nwu.edu> JAJZ801@calstate.bitnet writes: > I wonder how some of the apologists for the shenanigans being >passed off as inside humor would react if the Postal Service did the >following to their mail: > - randomly opened it and made copies to pass around the > office and to other parties > - intentionally routed it to the wrong party occasionally > I don't see any difference between these and the activities of the >insiders, other than the media and the employer, and that doesn't >change the ethics of the situation. What you apparently don't recognize, is that this DOES occur within the hallowed halls of the US Post Office (I refuse to call it a Postal Service!) Carriers have time and again been caught with BAGS of opened and unopened mail, usually when another carrier drops by to check on a carrier who hasn't called in sick, but didn't show up either... Carriers have also been known to destroy mail, rather than bother delivering it. Anyway, the telco folk who did this, as are the mail carriers, are merely a small subset of the hardworking main force. If they all went home tomorrow, what would happen??? + Barrey Jewall ++ "My opinions are my opinions" + + barrey@novell.com ++ (rather self-evident, eh?) + + Novell, Inc.- San Jose, Calif.++ +