🚀 go-pugleaf

[ This came to me as email from Dave Hayes <dave@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>,
and since he invites me to reply in the forum of my choice, I'll
post his original message ahead of my reply. ]

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In comp.admin.policy you write:
>Also, I frankly have little patience for dealing with what some snot-
>nosed teenager whose parents have come up with tuition may have to say
>on the subject, based solely upon his belief that one slow reading of
>the Bill of Rights entitles him to thus draw sweeping conclusions
>about what *must* have been in the minds of the Founding Fathers with
>regard to his personal login privileges.

I guess literacy with the written word does not imply sensitivity
to the concerns of other humans, does it? Sometimes these "snot-nosed
teens" have very interesting and enlightening things to say. (Do I 
detect a chip...?)

It is precisely this worldview that compells me to side with Carl
and those fighting for academic freedom. Tactics do not make
any impression upon me (as I said in the post that you'll probably 
miss) other than the strategic mindset of the tactician. 

As a sys admin of 10+ years, I have become increasingly aware that
there is a marked correlation betwen the amount of experience of a
sys admin and the tolerance and understanding with respect to policy 
that is presented. Usually the elder sys admins are much more patient
and thus have a lot more control over their network as a result.

>I'll also caution any other posters that we expire news after only
>three days (the reality of limited disc-space), and I will probably
>miss postings that show up here before next Sunday.

That's exactly why I mailed this to you. Feel free to respond in any forum
you deem appropriate. 
-- 
Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
dave@elxr.jpl.nasa.gov       dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov         ...usc!elroy!dxh

Be wary of strong drink.  It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss