Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: The Stormtroopers approacheth. . .
Message-ID: <202@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 19:51:15 GMT
References: <35661COK@PSUVMA>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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Summary: Paranoia is rational if they _are_ out to get you...
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In article <35661COK@PSUVMA> COK@PSUVMA.BITNET (R. W. F. Clark) writes:
>These administrative toads seem to believe that the creations of those they
>employ become irrevocably their property, and are obviously committed to
>the destruction of any humanity on the net.

Hmm.

>One assumes they would like the net much
>better were it absent of the sounds of mirth;

This is correct: _one_ assumes that the net administrators would prefer a
mirthless net.  That _one_ is COK.  Assumptions do not necessarily bear any
resemblance to the truth.

The net is the property of no one person or company.  Individual machines
are, on the other hand, clearly the property of specific persons or
companies.  To give private ownership no weight and to consider only the
"common good" as preached by a few vocal persons is, roughly, communism.

Anarchy (the net's current state) is greatly preferable to communism.

It's true that anarchy is not always pleasant.

-->  Too bad.  <--

By the way, the posting I'm responding to has a header line which says
"Lines: 665", although the article is [thankfully] much shorter than that.
Perhaps COK's low opinion of Usenet sysadmins has been unduly
influenced by the neglect exhibited by the administrators of PSUVMA?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg                 UUCP: "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
A T Engineering                 My employer's opinions are a trade secret.
       "Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't."