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In article <1991May23.184642.29771@newshost.anu.edu.au>
cmf851@anu.oz.au (Albert Langer) writes:

   ..."like the POLICE"! Where do people GET these ideas? Certainly 
   NOT from any unix manual I have ever seen.

Would "from my employer" qualify?

A part of my work (the one I get paid real money for :-) is
"enforcing the university computer network rules" - meaning
observing the news, handling complaints from users and starting
investigations if necessary. And I'm not the only one that our
bosses expect to take care of these duties alongsides with the
rest of the system maintenance and technical user support.

When you have over 4000 users on a network (and more coming in
every fall), the job gets less and less technical and more and
more like human management. You spend days after days informing
about the rules, thinking through them, debating them with
colleagues and clients, checking out complaints, discussing them
with the accused offenders and victims, collecting data from
logfiles etc. etc. etc.

Of course, you might say that you will not have anything to do
with police work - but then you most likely won't work here. It
takes all the employees' (and the users'!) cooperation and
critical observation to keep the rules up-to-date and respectful
to both the admin's and the user's rights.  Furthermore, trying
to set a good example is the hardest work of them all.

Paivi

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