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From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Database of all net sites
Message-ID: <1806@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 14-Feb-87 08:18:06 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1806
Posted: Sat Feb 14 08:18:06 1987
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References: <110@catsim.catsim.UUCP> <7960@decwrl.DEC.COM> <3339@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <194@drilex.UUCP>
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In article <194@drilex.UUCP>, dricej@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson) writes:
> >>(3) The internal details of a company are nobody's business but that
> >>company.  AT&T in particular does not want it's internal list of system
> >>administrators published to the outside; it considers that information
> >>very proprietary, and I've been told to stop sending it out.
> 
>     they're afraid you might try to hire them all.

Really?  People actually would want to hire the folks who run the
3 and 4 year old netnews software and who advise the users who keep 
posting used car ads to worldwide groups?  There are few companies in
the world who would hire such people, don'tcha think?   :-)

Seriously, if they wanted to hire the sysops, they could always send email
to machine!root for all machines of interest.  Removing the guy's name
and phone number doesn't render him/her incommunicado.
-- 
John Gilmore  {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu   gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu
Love your country but never trust its government.
		     -- from a hand-painted road sign in central Pennsylvania