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In article <EMCGUIRE.92Nov18113627@fuller.intellection.com>, emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes...
>We do not receive a full feed.  Our unofficial policy is that we
>receive any newsgroup which adds value to the company.  We assume that
>anyone who requests a new newsgroup is doing it for the value, and add
>it without question.  We remove newsgroups which are not read.  Some
>employees have commented that unrestricted netnews is a condition of
>their continued employment, and is therefore of value to the company
>simply by virtue of keeping valuable employees.  Nobody here has
>questioned the effects of netnews upon productivity.  We assume that
>it enhances productivity by providing timely technical information.
> 
>If management questioned the value of netnews, I would study myself
>over a week period and produce a report.  I would include the time I
>spent reading news (and news-related mail) and discuss the benefits to
>the company.  I would discuss how these benefits could have been
>gotten without news, and what the cost might have been.  I would also
>discuss historical anecdotes about how news added value to the
>company, and discuss how my week's study was or was not representative
>of my overall news reading pattern.  I would discuss how posting
>information is the activity which generates these benefits, and
>include my time spent writing articles as an overhead cost along with
>telephone charges, spool space cost, etc., required to participate in
>news.  I would relate my experience with what I would expect for other
>news readers.  Based on the study I would make a recommendation to
>management.  If I found that news wasn't worth it to the company, that
>would be my frank assessment.  However, I assume I would recommend
>continuing the news feed.
>-- 
>Ed McGuire                   1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780
>Systems Administrator/       Dallas, Texas 75234
> Member of Technical Staff   214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110
>Intellection, Inc.           <ed@intellection.com>


<*>  No offense intended to Mr. McGuire, but I would expect a lot more
coming from Dallas.  Lockheed is pretty big in neighboring Fort Worth
and Houston.  Many folks there wouldn't do without VNEWS for the same
reasons I've outlined in a previous post..namely Quality Circles.