Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!apple!voder!kontron!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corporate Image Keywords: do you have one? Message-ID: <338@optilink.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 21:00:05 GMT References: <7047@tness7.UUCP> <240@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 18 > > Do you have any advice on how to justify the existence of netnews > > on your machines, the existence of public gateway machines, the > > existence of administrative positions for news administrators, etc. > > I have used at least this reason to justify Usenet: "i personally have gotten > useful information from usenet". Even one or two instances of this is enough > to me to justify it. > -- > Derek Terveer det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG Misc.jobs.wanted is the most powerful reason of all (to beancounters) to be on USENET. We paid for at least a year's worth of phone time when we put an ad up for system administrator and within a week, we were besieged with qualified applicants -- one of whom lived within three miles of here. No headhunter fee, no relocation expenses -- a solid win, all the way around. Clayton E. Cramer