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From: mechjgh@tness7.UUCP (Greg Hackney )
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Corporate Image
Keywords: do you have one?
Message-ID: <7047@tness7.UUCP>
Date: 5 Aug 88 01:43:00 GMT
Organization: Southwestern Bell, Network Engineering, Dallas
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Do you administer Netnews for a large corporation ?

If so, my boss would like for me to ask your comments
on a couple of things...

We are starting to feed news to a lot of public sites, as
well as sites within the company. Several folks are asking the
question, what if a VP reads the news and runs across articles
in the explicit newsgroups, i.e. alt.sex, alt.drugs, talk.*, etc.

From a pure business standpoint, this might be construed as a
waste of computing resources and employee time. Do you as
a large company carry the alt groups and others?

Do you feel that it is a bad reflection on the image
of your company for allowing the groups to pass to public
and business sites?

Do you have any advice on how to justify the existence of netnews
on your machines, the existence of public gateway machines, the
existence of administrative positions for news administrators, etc.

And finally, if you do administer news for a big company, could
you email me a message so I can say, "Look, so-and-so company
is an advocate of netnews, we should be too".

Thanks in advance.
--
Greg Hackney
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
Dallas, Texas
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