Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!sunic!fuug!funic!nntp.hut.fi!nntp!Paivi.Hyvarinen From: Paivi.Hyvarinen@hut.fi (Paivi Helena Hyvarinen) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Subject: Re: harassing mail Message-ID: Date: 27 May 91 02:07:48 GMT References: <1991May23.030459.8377@osh3.OSHA.GOV> <1766@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <1991May23.184642.29771@newshost.anu.edu.au> Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Reply-To: Paivi.Hyvarinen@hut.fi Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: cmf851@anu.oz.au's message of 23 May 91 18:46:42 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: vipunen.hut.fi In article <1991May23.184642.29771@newshost.anu.edu.au> cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer) writes: ..."like the POLICE"! Where do people GET these ideas? Certainly NOT from any unix manual I have ever seen. Would "from my employer" qualify? A part of my work (the one I get paid real money for :-) is "enforcing the university computer network rules" - meaning observing the news, handling complaints from users and starting investigations if necessary. And I'm not the only one that our bosses expect to take care of these duties alongsides with the rest of the system maintenance and technical user support. When you have over 4000 users on a network (and more coming in every fall), the job gets less and less technical and more and more like human management. You spend days after days informing about the rules, thinking through them, debating them with colleagues and clients, checking out complaints, discussing them with the accused offenders and victims, collecting data from logfiles etc. etc. etc. Of course, you might say that you will not have anything to do with police work - but then you most likely won't work here. It takes all the employees' (and the users'!) cooperation and critical observation to keep the rules up-to-date and respectful to both the admin's and the user's rights. Furthermore, trying to set a good example is the hardest work of them all. Paivi -- @ Paivi Hyvarinen, systems analyst (part time) @ Paivi.Hyvarinen@hut.fi @ @ User Services Section @ @ @ Computing Centre, Helsinki Univ. of Technology @ Voice: 358 + 0 - 451 4316 @ @ Otakaari 1 M, SF-02150 Espoo, Finland @ Reception: U133 Thu 10-12 @