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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Morris did it"--the new excuse?
Message-ID: <1202@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 15 Nov 88 18:26:17 GMT
References: <16915@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <17025@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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In <17025@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu writes:
>I read in the paper about a researcher complaining that thanks to the big
>bad Morris worm, he was unable to carry out a critical transfer of files
>from one machine to another: his sysadmin was too busy that day because
>of the worm.  My only reaction was what an incompetent bozo: is this re-
>searcher just as non-functioning when his sysadmin calls in sick?

You're suffering from what Alvin Toffler would call failure of imagination,
or what others might call ignorance.
			    ==A=R=P=A=N=E=T==
				    |
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			       [ gateway ]
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				|	|
     =C=O=R=P=O=R=A=T=E===E=N=E=T=	=C=R=O=N=U=S===E=N=E=T=
	       |				|
	   citron.bbn.com			papaya.bbn.com
Both citron and papaya are Cronus machines.  When BBN shut down the
gateway Thursday morning to avoid further contamination I was unable to
do some work I wanted to do.

There's another possibility: you just assumed that the researcher
understood what was going on and the mass media reported the technical
story correct.  Or you just took the opportunity to express obnoxiousness
at the slightest cause.

You've made some good points, but they're getting drowned in the screed.
You'd be more effective if you toned down both the tenor and the volume.
	/rich $alz
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