Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site erix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!drutx!houxe!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!ukc!mcvax!enea!erix!mike From: mike@erix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Net.politics to Europe, Lets start net.world-politics Message-ID: <499@erix.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 00:01:23 EDT Article-I.D.: erix.499 Posted: Wed Jun 27 00:01:23 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 03:27:02 EDT References: <443@erix.UUCP> <161@log-hb.UUCP> <404@kvvax4.UUCP> <483@erix.UUCP> <406@kvvax4.UUCP> Organization: L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 18 Rolf Kosvik seems to think that while at work we should work 100% of the time. This is certainly worth of high praise. I wish I could work like that. However I can't and I'm sure that most of us can't either. A short break to let the brain rest is essential from time to time to ensure that we can get on with high speed hacking afterwards. A good way to have a break is to read the news, both technical and otherwise. Many of us do a lot of work (for which we don't get paid extra) from terminals at home and this more than compensates for the work lost by reading and posting to the net. As long as we do the work we are paid to do, our employers have nothing to lose. Employers who start imposing idiotic restrictions on what is not allowed in working hours usually lose their most qualified staff and develop a hostile attitude to their company that cost them far more than they gain. If Kosvik thinks that reading and posting news is such a waste of his company's time, why did he post his article? :-) Mike Williams