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In article <shaver.722015212@convex.convex.com> shaver@convex.com (Dave Shaver) writes:

>While some companies budget entire machines to be net gateways and news
>servers, other companies argue that news should be eliminated.

>The question: If your management questioned the value of your news,
>what would you say?  What if they said they wanted to turn the whole
>thing off or eliminate 90% of it?  (The "non-business" newsgroups.)
>What arguments would you use to maintain your feed?

I can itemize times when news has saved us time and money. It is
fairly easy to do this for the technical groups, of course, but it
isn't that hard to do for the rest.
  How much work time is saved by being able to find a list of
auto mechanics on the net, instead of spending company time on the
telephone? Has a posting in rec.pets.dogs allowed a worker to not take
an afternoon off to visit the vet? Have you gotten any office
furniture cheap from misc.forsale?
  Of course, netnews DOES lead to users spending some company time for
entertainment purposes. That is hard to deny and your company might
legitimately decide not to provide this service. Fortunately,
commercial services are proliferating, so soon anyone who wants rec.
soc., alt.binaries should be able to buy access. 
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