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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Forgeries: a suggestion for bringing them under control
Message-ID: <774@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 88 16:05:54 GMT
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In article <5300@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
>...
> If you're sysadmin of the news on your site and you haven't even got
> the authority to restrict news access, then I'd suggest that you
> either [a] demand such authority or [b] quit, because you're working
> in an environment where you can't control your users at all, and hence
> can't control your environment, which kind of implies that you're not
> being allowed to be a sysadmin after all.

Hardly.  Instead it sounds more like you were hired to maintain the system
rather than boss the users.  It is a real shame that so many admins post
messages essentially indicating that if they can't boss the users then
there is nothing in life worthwhile -- sigh.

----- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)