Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830919); site kvvax4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcvax!kvport!kvvax4!koksvik From: koksvik@kvvax4.UUCP (Rolf M. Koksvik) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.news.group,eunet.politics,eunet.followup Subject: Re: Net.politics to Europe, Lets start net.world-politics Message-ID: <405@kvvax4.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 05:55:26 EDT Article-I.D.: kvvax4.405 Posted: Tue Jun 12 05:55:26 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 00:03:41 EDT References: <443@erix.UUCP> <161@log-hb.UUCP> <404@kvvax4.UUCP> <483@erix.UUCP> Organization: Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, CTG, P.O Box 25, N-3601 Kongsberg, Norway Lines: 23 >I think that the American presidential race is of world >interest, and I want to hear what people in the US are >doing and saying about it. So why don't you subscribe to Newsweek or Washington Post or something? >Compared to what employers can pay for other senseless >activities and projects the cost of a connection to >Usenet is neglible. And the time involved in reading >news is probably not greater than that involved in >internal company bureaucracy, much of which is >unneccessary. Sounds like company morale leaves a little to be desired. I doubt if you are paid to discuss politics in working hours, be it on USENET or in drawn out coffee breaks. >If you get a bad conscience then either read your news at >home or don't read it at all. I will make my own >decisions on that issue! And don't go running to mummy when your company decides to shut you off from the net. Rolf M. Koksvik ({decvax,philabs}!mcvax!kvport!kvvax4!koksvik) A/S Kongsberg Vaapenfabrikk, Kongsberg