Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site phri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!roy From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: To: persons offended by ucla-cs!alex Message-ID: <283@phri.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 15:06:10 EDT Article-I.D.: phri.283 Posted: Tue Jun 25 15:06:10 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:12:01 EDT References: <1666@amdahl.UUCP> <131@ucla-cime.UUCP> <2896@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 37 >> Well I'm glad to see that someone out there is stupid enough to >> start giving out system administrator's addresses. If anybody at phri does something to offend you, write to me (address below) and I'll look into it; that's my job! > [...] take the groups with the lowest volume of useful information and > highest volume [of trash?] and send them into the great bit bucket in > the sky. Consider what an SA has to deal with. On the one hand, his users scream and yell that they want more disk space. On the other hand, they bitch and moan that they want N Mbytes of news every day. I've pushed our expiration time from 14 to 10 and now to 7 days, but I seem to be just barely keeping even. I agree, censorship is a terrible thing. If I had a newspaper that I paid to have printed and distributed I would scream like a stuck pig if someone told me what I could or couldn't print. Problem is, the people who want to read 20 articles a day on toilet paper aren't the ones paying for it. Granted, the *thing* length survey was pretty amusing, but does it justify all the other swill? People on my system are trying to do real work. Why should they have to contend with toilet paper for disk space, CPU time, and dial-in lines (not to mention phone bills), when THEY are the ones footing the bill? I couldn't justify keeping rogue on my system; I may not be able to justify news either if it comes to that. The comp center where I went to college doesn't get news because the director says most of it is just computerized CB radio (he's a ham, so I guess this is about as insulting as you can get). Contrary to his advice, I started getting news when I got my own site to run. It's starting to look like he is still making wiser decisions than I am. -- allegra!phri!roy (Roy Smith) System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute