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From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy
Subject: Re: System admins looking for scapegoats
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.214553.26004@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 13 Jun 91 21:45:53 GMT
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jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen) writes:

>Incidents like this are going to continue forever if the only answer
>the sysadmins can come up with is punishing the perpetrator.

I'd like to add to this that "punishment" should serve some sort of purpose
other than to make the victims feel happy. 

-- 
Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov       dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov           ames!elroy!dxh

A person was frighteningly ugly. Once he was asked how could he go on
living with such a terrible face. "Why should I be unhappy?", answered
the man. "I never see my own face; let others worry."