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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.news.stargate
Subject: Re: Need for Stargate screening?
Message-ID: <831@hound.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 10:00:05 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 10:00:05 1985
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I guess drivel is in the eye (ear?) of the beholder.  I have intentionally
not read anything about "Stargate" until now because it sure sounded like
it was going to be a lot of drivel. But when I saw a pronouncement from
Mark Horton, I figured I better read it.  Wish I hadn't.
People who want to censor the activities of others always have good
reasons for doing so.
What is this stuff about the people who pay the bills having the say?
Of course that's true.  But who are these people? As I understand it,
they are we.  Each of us has an account with our comp center. Ultimately
that account is billed to some other account belonging to some corporation
or gov"t agency or whatever. We have an amount authorized for our
account over some period of time, like a year. One of our supervisors
has approved that amount. We ourselves are intrusted with how we go about
spending the account and for what. I know of no manager who wants to closely
follow just how each of his/her people are spending their money.
As long as we feel we are spending it in worthwhile ways, and as long as
our supervision has confidence in our judgement, then  are, in effect,
the ones spending the money, not some comp center person who feels overly
self important.
For myself, I feel that perhaps 10 to 20 percent of my account for
usenet and similar activities (e.g., electronic mail, games)(note
seemingly strange admixture) is quite reasonable.  If someone can cut
these costs while preserving the unique facility, swell. Let them do
it.  If someone wants to change the facility radically, lets examine
his/her authority for doing so. Let's let the bill payers speak for
themselves, all thousands of them.

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"It's the thought, if any, that counts."  Dick Grantges  hound!rfg