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Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 11:16:00 EST
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> From: EE101%sysa.salford.ac.uk@cs.ucl.ac.uk
...
>So the moral of this story is.....
>Think back when you first met VMS. (as a Sys_Admin) would you want a student
>knowing more than you??????

  I am a student and a 'assistant' system manager of a vax750. Let me give
you a hint as to how a new vax system manager could deal with a knowledgeable
student. HIRE HIM/HER. Most of us will work slave hours for slave wages, just
to have a vax to take care of. The benifits of this are patently obvious. 
You get someone with 'dangerous' (:->) knowledge working for you instead of
against you. This student will also probably know any other student who might
be a potential problem for your system, and he/she will probably know the 
tricks that malicious students will use. (Around here WORD-OF-MOUTH is much
more dangerous then INFO-VAX. And the hackers dont post WORD-OF-MOUTH where
system administrators can read it.) Its a wonderful insurence policy,
and you educate a student (and yourself) along the way. Who knows, you might 
even learn !not! to think of university computing as a US vs. THEM 
situation. 
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