Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:823 comp.sources.wanted:4857 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!falkor!heiby From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: Mr. Moderator, please post XXX Message-ID: <174@falkor.UUCP> Date: 23 Aug 88 03:32:45 GMT References: <222@pigs.UUCP> <6031@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <236@pigs.UUCP> <4663@whuts.UUCP> Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) Organization: Luck Dragons, Magic, & Friends Lines: 40 54299-DINSMORE,W.S. (wsd@whuts.UUCP) writes: > The users in our group > can't modify the L.sys files you talk about. What we have is what we work > with, period. If you don't have access to your L.sys files, then you are not administering your systems. In that case, you probably are paying someone else (perhaps a "comp center") to do so for you. You should request your administrator make the necessary modifications to allow archive access. If your company does not believe that this is an appropriate activity for its computers, then you should not endanger your job by trying to bypass your company's policy. > I have used some sites where all you need to do is send a > mail message with a subject of SERVER and a body with the commands and > files being requested. Much easier, no problems. Fine, send a very short mail message. No one really minds passing a few dozen bytes. But, what happens then? Maybe a couple of megabytes pass through my modems and disks, tying up my limited phone lines and costing me actual $$ to *my* company's long distance carrier. That's *RUDE*. > As far as I can tell > the rpp386 site is of no use to us. If I'm wrong, by all means correct me. The site is of use if the management in charge of running your computer system is willing to allow you to use it. That's an internal decision within your company. > It just irks me that some people assume the world knows everything they > do, and if they don't they have to submit to flames from someone who > refuses to get off their high horse and give a little help. It just irks me that some people assume the world owes them its resources in passing (at least) hundreds of kilobytes of information that they are unwilling (as an organization) to pay for themselves, and if they see someone object, they whine publicly about how useless the services that require some expense are. > AT&T Bell Labs I thought this organization still had some modems and phone lines. :-) -- Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix "Failure is one of the basic Freedoms!" The Doctor (in Robots of Death)