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Buddy Bear at L meBrerbear M Enterprises (brerbear@netcom.com) wrote:
: I am a system administrator for a Unix system. 

Is it your profession or kind of a hobby for you?

:I run into bozos like you all the time.

See previous question...

: Files that you wish to keep should NOT be stored on 
: such a volatile system as that which netcom operates. Have you ever heard 
: of diskettes? or tape? While I am sure that the netcom sysadmin people 
: perform backups of much of the user files, I don't recall anything in the
: netcom contract that I signed that guaranteed safe storage of user files for
: any kind of prolonged period. They offer workspace, not storage. 

Hmm.  I don't have a contract with NETCOM saying that I'll avoid being a
resource hog there unnecessarily but I avoid doing so.  I don't have a
clause in my contract at work, saying that I'll work after 5 to solve
customers' problems either but guess what...I do!  If you have to spell
out every little situation in a contract and not depend on some shared
responsibility, you're in sorry shape.

I happened to store some files at NETCOM during a job transition, when
I had no other option.  Ironically enough, I was about to move those
files into a safer location just before they (and my account) disappeared.

Oh..one other thing:   bite me.

    Don