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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,news.misc
Subject: Re: Newsgroup Voting
Message-ID: <485@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 89 08:21:21 GMT
References: <3682@ficc.uu.net> <467@flatline.UUCP> <4570@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: erict@flatline.UUCP (J. Eric Townsend)
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In article <4570@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:
>Let me see if I understand. As a news administrator here at KU, I spend some
>time maintaining feeds and supporting the news software, etc, so I am
>"supporting" the net, but back before we got any news software, and I just
>spent my time answering questions on comp.os.vms (and asking them, too) I
>WASN'T supporting the net? :-)

Actually, I think there's some truth in what you said.  By being
a comp.os.vms guru, you were helping other vms boneheads :-) deal
with a bogus os. :-).  If the news at your site went down, all you
had to do was bug the sysadmin, and they'd fix it.  Now you're responsible
for seeing that news is functioning for the x users at your site that
want to use Usenet.  If it goes down, they come whining to you.
You're in a position or responsibility, not only to your users, but
to your usenet neighbors.  As a comp.os.vms person, you were responsible
for yourself.


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