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In article <715878422snx@dojo.mi.org> sensei@dojo.mi.org (the Maniak) writes:
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"I don't think that too many people are interested in how WSU's computer
"department generally mistreated John Palmer, no offense.  Let me add my
"proverbial "two cents" to the matter:
"
"My only affiliation with WSU is that I receive a personal UUCP feed from
"wsu-cs -- mail and a little Usenet.  In this function, they've been terrific!
"I have a problem, I mail it off to the admin, Jon Brewster, and it's typcally
"resolved quickly.  I helped set up a couple friends with a little bit of
"home mail/Usenet connectivity and WSU was able to facilitate things rapidly.
"Mail and news works...  my headers don't get munged into utter nonsense.
"I want a new newsgroup, it gets added.  .UUCP addresses get pathaliased, etc.
"Overall, I've been very happy with WSU in this function, and I wish to
"extend Jon Brewster and anyone else who's made things work right there a
"big "thank you".
"
"For all I know, this could be extremely atypical, and everyone at WSU
"is some sort of fascist incompetent sloth-unit off to make Detroit look
"bad on the net.  (We all know about some people who make Detroit look bad
"on the net.)  But long-time-ago possible-slights aren't typically the
"stuff of "good" Usenet, and this "WSU is bad" crap seems like no exception.
"Take it to mail, or the grave, or something.  It's getting on my nerves
"here.
"

Whoa - lets get some terms straight.  

You deal with The COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, which is the academic
department which teaches Computer Science. wsu-cs is a departmental 
machine and, yes, Jon Brewster is both competent and a nice guy. I 
know as I worked for him for several years running the VAX 11/780

My beef is with the C&IT (Computing and Information Technology). This
department is in charge of the university's academic mainframe, which
runs an antiquated system called MTS as well as most of the public PC
labs on campus. They also are in charge of the WSU telephone system and
the TV/video facilities. They are trying to move academic computing to
UTS. (They have an Amdahl 5890). 

As I understand it, the C&IT and the CSC (Computer Science Department)
have tiffs between each other every now and then, and, at least the
last time that I heard, aren't on the best of terms.