Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven.umd.edu!umd5!voronoi.cs.jhu.edu!eifrig From: eifrig@cs.jhu.edu (Jack Eifrig) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Responsible SysAdmin Behavior Summary: As in posts, so as in life? Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 21:37:27 GMT Lines: 42 In article brendan@cs.widener.edu writes: >In article rodney@picasso.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes: > > fair enough. I'm in a similar position with regard to policy enforcement. > I can see this as being a place where disgruntled students flame at people > who are simply trying to do their jobs. It's not a pretty vision. > >I certainly hope not---when I came up with the idea for this, I saw it >as a way for admins to vent their frustrations (or lack of same) and >try to get an idea of how other people deal with things. I've made it ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >my own personal crusade to mail-fry any twerp that sees this as a way ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >for him or her to "get back" at their local systems administrator. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >This group is meant to help, not turn into the kind of fracas that >happened in news.admin with SBrack vs OSU. > > Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu > Widener University in Chester, PA A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone Well, this is the kind of responsible system administrator attitude I like to see! Do you _really_ believe that it is appropriate for a SysAdmin to "mail-fry" anyone, for whatever reason? With authority comes responsibility: SysAdmins have a _greater_ responsibility to behave with decorum than the average user. It's attitudes and actions like the above that prompts "twerps" to complain about their local administrators. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "They were there." - amateur photographer George Holliday, when asked why he did not call the police as he filmed the beating of Rodney King by L.A. police officers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------